“To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.”

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

The awe of God is wisdom.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, – “impérissable”, Fr.) good.

The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.

However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content.

It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

I have an official record. I have the Word of God: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life.”

No mind, no wisdom–tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom–eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.