The telling question of a person’s life is whether or not he is related to the Infinite. Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
Benjamin Franklin Quote – “God governs in the affairs of men…”
The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “Someone who has purified the eyes of his soul…”
When someone whose mind is but partially developed sees something clothed in some semblance of beauty, he believes that this thing is beautiful in its own nature… but someone who has purified the eyes of his soul and is trained to see beautiful things makes use of the visible as a springboard to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual. […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “It is there that God dwells…”
Finally the soul, which has travelled by these ways towards the things that are above and has abandoned everything that is accessible to human nature, penetrates into the sanctuary of the knowledge of God that is wrapped on all sides in darkness. There, as everything perceptible and intelligible has been left outside, there remains for the soul’s contemplation only what […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “You alone have been made the image of Reality…”
Know to what extent the Creator has honored you above all the rest of creation. The sky is not an image of God, nor is the moon, nor the sun, nor the beauty of the stars, nor anything of what can be seen in creation. You alone have been made the image of the Reality that transcends all understanding, the […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “Sharing in the divine fullness…”
Sharing in the divine fullness is such that it makes whoever achieves it ever greater, more illimitable, so as never to cease growing, because the spring of all reality flows ceaselessly. The being of anyone who shares in it is increased in grandeur by all that springs up within, so that the capacity for receiving grows along with the abundance […]
Kabir Quote – “Inside the heart there burns a large fire…”
Inside the heart there burns a large fire, yet no smoke is seen, but the fire grows higher. He who it burns away that flame does know, and he also knows He who did make it grow. Kabir (circa 1398 – 1518)
Brother Lawrence Quote – “The gale of the Holy Spirit…”
Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward even in sleep. Brother Lawrence (circa 1614 – 1691)
Brother Lawrence Quote – “The heart must be empty…”
I know that for the right practice of it (the presence of the Lord) the heart must be empty of all other things, because God will possess the heart alone, and as He cannot possess it alone without emptying it of all besides, so neither can he act there, and do in it what he pleases, unless it be left […]
Jeanne Guyon Quote – “The boundless sea has absorbed the river…”
The boundless sea has absorbed the river and its limited waters. Now the river shares in all that the sea has. The sea carries the river along; the river cannot carry itself along. The river has become one with the sea. No, the river does not have all the qualities of the sea, but it is, nonetheless, in the sea. […]
