Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We should humbly and realistically accept our limitations both in prayer and in action. It rests with us to devote ourselves to prayer, to prepare ourselves for it, to begin to pray, and to advance as best as we can, but we will come up against a limit beyond which only the Holy Spirit can enable us to pass. It is the same with action. We can indeed expend ourselves on a variety of activities but we shall find our limitations in the strength we bring to them, in our courage an detachment, and, above all, in the perfecting of our charity. Only the Holy Spirit can take us beyond these limitations. Whether in prayer or in action, we are, then, wholly dependent on the Holy Spirit.
–René Voillaume (1905–2003)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
A cup is a container for holding something. Whatever it holds has to eventually be emptied out so that something more can be put into it. I have learned that I cannot always expect my life to be full. There has to be some emptying, some pouring out, if I am to make room for the new. The spiritual journey is like that-a constant process of emptying and filling, of giving and receiving, of accepting and letting go.
–Joyce Rupp (1943-
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Now, if one will attain to true peace, he must yield himself up to this spiritual destitution; he must make nothing of it; he must in all single heartedness resign himself to the holy will of God, and suffer this oppression of spirit in all patience; yes, even if it were to endure to the end of the world.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We are becoming as we go.
–Joan Chittester (1936-
