The beginning and end of everything is love. Only inside of the mystery of love - mutual self-emptying and infilling - can we know God....

Truly, O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry;...

A bird does not sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song Chinese Proverb *** Image: Robin singing, Rhyl, Wales....

May God’s love wrap and enfold you; Embrace you and guide you, And bring you comfort. Julian of Norwich *** Image: Candle and flame....

Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The wat’ry shore Is giv’n thee ‘till the break of day William Blake ***...

I will not forget you. I have carved you on the palm of my hand. Isaiah 49:15 *** Image: Foot of a one-month-old infant, held in an...

God did not say you will not be troubled, You will not be belaboured, You will not be disquieted; But God said, You will not be overcome....

May all that is unforgiven in you be released May your fears yield their deepest tranquilities May all that is unloved in you blossom...

‘It is not that we pray and God answers. It is that our praying is already God answering within us and through us.’ Richard Rohr ***...

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and...

‘Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling. They configure themselves To...

‘The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality, to trust our divine image and grow in God’s...

‘The point is the seeing – the grace Beyond recognition, the ways Of the bird rising, unnamed, unknown Beyond the range of language,...

‘At the back of our brains, so to speak, there’s a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the...

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp,...

‘Taste and see the goodness of the Lord’ Psalm 34:8 *** Image: ‘Marriage at Cana’ - frescos in the Ferapontov Monstery, Vologda Oblast,...

‘In what way do you have a feverish desire to do the will of God?’ Richard Rohr *** I mage: ‘Praying Hands’, Oral Roberts University,...

‘the dawning of divine light in the stillness of our hearts’ Thomas Merton *** Image: Dawn on the Sula River, Nyzhnosulskyi National...

‘Sophia is the eros of God become one with all creation, the love in God that longs for incarnation from before the beginning. She is the...

‘Mary spins earthly matter into being and weaves it together with the heavens so that all of creation is interpenetrated with the...