‘God has a place for you to fill, but it will take all of you to fill it’ Hugh Redwood *** I mage: Redwood trees near Carlotta,...

‘The gift of tears helps you embrace the mystery of paradox, of that which can’t be fixed, which can’t be made right, which can’t be...

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to...

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart… Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. C.G. Jung ***...

Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: ‘Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer,...

‘O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. ‘O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less; The eastern light our...

‘I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered…’ Marc Chagall *** Image: Stained glass windows in the...

Description of the Northumbrian monastic community: ‘Dynamic and erratic, spontaneous and radical, audacious and immature, committed if...

‘Behold God beholding you – and smiling’ Anthony de Mello *** Image: Saturn, seven of its moons and inner rings. Photos taken by NASA's...

At the centre of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark...

‘Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with...

‘who is the third that walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road...

‘The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable,...

‘We almost naturally float forward by the quiet movement of grace when the time is right – and the old agenda shows itself to be...

‘In essentials, unity In nonessentials, liberty In all things, charity’ Quoted by Pope John XXIII in his first encyclical, ‘Ad Petri...

‘What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ Mary Oliver *** Image: Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) following...

‘Great love is always a discovery, a revelation, a wonderful surprise, a falling into something much bigger and deeper that is literally...

‘Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you’. From ‘Anne of Green Gables’ by L.M Montgomery...

‘Religion serves the function of radical transformation and liberation. This function does not fortify the separate self but utterly...

‘God passed into humanity so that humanity might pass over into God’ St Iranaeus *** Image: The Virgin Teaching the Christ Child to Read,...