Russian Orthodox at Compline
Everything praises God. Darkness, privations, defects, evil too praise God and bless God.
— Meister Eckhert
To reach satisfaction in all
desire its possession in nothing.
To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing.
to arrive at being all
desire to be nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing.
—- St. John of the Cross
True individuality consists in reducing oneself to zero. the secret of life is selfless service. The highest ideal is to become free from attachment.
— GhandiNothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
— Meister Eckhart
Time . . . can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have people of good will. we must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time always ripe to do right. . . . Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.’
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We are more truly in heaven than on earth.
— Julian of Norwich
It is in God that we live, and move, and have our being.
— Paul in Acts 17:38The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw–and knew I saw–all things in God, and God in all things.
— Mechtild of MagdeburgGod hugs you.
You are encircled by the arms
of the mystery of God.
— Hildegarde of BingenFear is driven out by perfect love.
— John in 1 John 4:18Where there is fear, there is no religion.
— GhandiAll praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Moon and Stars.
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air;
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Water.
— St. Francis of AssisiDo you have a body? Don’t sit on the porch!
go walk in the rain!
— Kabir (6.32)You cannot devalue the body and value the soul
or value anything else.
The isolation of the body sets it into direct conflict with everything else in Creation.
Nothing could be more absurd than to despise the body and yet yearn for its resurrection.
— Wendell BerryThe earth does not belong to the people; the people belong to the earth. . . this earth is precious to the Creator and to harm the earth is to heap contempt upon its Creator. . . . Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red people. We are part of the earth and it is part of us.
— Chief SeattleTo be is a blessing. To live is holy.
— Rabbi Abraham HeschelAs a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.
— W.H. AudenBeauty is all about us, but how many are blind to it! People take little pleasure in the naturl and quiet and simple things.
— Pablo CasalsYou have made all your works in wisdom!
— Ps. 104:24The force that drives the water through rocks
Drives my red blood.
— Dylan ThomasFor anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation is gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God’s work.
— Paul, 2 Cor. 5:17-18A spirituality that preaches resignation under official brutalities . . . and total submission to organized injustice is one that has lost interest in holiness and remains concerned only with a spurious notion of ‘order.’
— Thomas MertonChristology is creation underlined, concentrated and condensed.
Faith in creation as God wishes it to be.
— Edward SchillebeeckxThe kingdom of God is among you.
— Luke 17:21
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