‘We are down here in time, where beauty grows.’ Annie Dillard *** Image: Bees on a flowering allium in a garden border, Hampton Court...

‘The silence is all there is… You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence… Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray...

‘You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But...

‘Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas...

‘Thank God that I got my little chance to dance on this stage of life, to reflect the glory of God back to God.’ Richard Rohr *** Image:...

‘Thank You for allowing me to be a human being.’ Prayer of St Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253 [Born Chiara Offreduccio; one of the first...

‘Within the Triune God we discover mutual love, mutual fellowship, mutual dependence, mutual honour, mutual submission, mutual dwelling...

‘In the core of the Trinity The Father laughs And gives birth to the Son. The Son laughs back at the Father And gives birth to the Spirit...

‘I am a hole in the flute that Christ’s breath moves through’ Hafiz (born Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī) also known by his...

‘Earth is crammed with Heaven and every common bush afire with God’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning *** Image: Siberian dogwood [Cornus...

‘The Trinity suddenly filled my heart with the greatest joy. And I understood that in Heaven it will be like that for ever.’ Julian of...

‘Relationship has always been the wild card, the court jester who appears in the midst of our human agenda and our hallucinations of...

‘How gently and lovingly You wake in my heart Where in secret You dwell alone And in Your sweet breathing, filled with good and glory How...

O then, weary then whý should we tread? O why are we so haggard at the heart, so care-coiled, care-killed, so fagged, so fashed, so...

‘Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver.’ From ‘The Golden Echo’ by Gerard Manley...

‘Teach us to follow in Your footsteps Across the icy waters of prejudice and fear To the perfect communion of God’s kingdom’ Mary Low ***...

‘Clap your hands, all you peoples; Shout to God with loud songs of joy, For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome’ Psalm 47:1 *** Image:...

‘God made the world out of nothing, and it is only when we become nothing that God can make anything of us.’ Martin Luther *** Photo:...

Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Nought be all else to me, save that Thou art; Thou my best thought in the day or the night; Waking...

Set Out! You were born for the road. You have a meeting to keep. Where? With whom? Perhaps with yourself. Set out! Alone or with others –...