‘When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms’ From...

‘And that’s what our religion says to us—that Good Friday may occupy the throne for a day, but ultimately it must give way to the...

‘If you think where you are is boring, it’s because you haven’t woken its soul’ Rilke *** Image: Hafnarstræti, Reykjavík, Iceland,...

‘I’m too alone in the world, yet not alone enough To make each hour holy I’m too small in the world, yet not small enough To be simply in...

‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind’ Emily Dickinson *** Image: Crepuscular Rays,...

‘When you hear Jesus say ‘eat my bread and drink my blood’, you are supposed to stop breathing for a few moments’ Thomas Merton ***...

‘God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible’ Philip Yancey *** Image: Crepuscular rays or...

A few of you have asked for a copy of the talk I gave last Sunday

‘Contemplation and action are not opposites, but two interdependent forms of a life that is one – a life that rushes out to a passionate...

‘There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun’ … ‘We are all living in a world that is...

‘By virtue of the Creation, and, still more, of the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. On the...

‘…take my hand that is Of the bone the island Is made of, and looking at Me say what time it is On love’s face, for we have No business...

‘You called, you cried, you shattered my deafness. You sparkled, you blazed, you drove away my blindness. You shed your fragrance and I...

‘Yahweh frequently moves the boundary in order to restore the centre, calling a broken people back to justice and compassion. Jesus, in a...

I once spoke to my friend, an old squirrel About the Sacraments – He got so excited And ran into a hollow in his tree and came Back...

Dear Friends, "Being married to Jeffrey is bad enough, being married to Jesus would be awful!" Thus begins the celebrated monologue "Love...

'Captain Captain, long Is the wind’s tongue And cold your porridge. Look up now And dry your beard. Teach me to ride In my high saddle...

‘Things happen, for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before,...

'Once the buttery morning sun graces anything, the whole world is worth a look’ James Schaap *** Image: Winter dawn panorama on Ai-Petri,...

‘Life is a very deep mystery and finally the Grace of God is all that can resolve it. And the Grace of God is also a very deep mystery’...