"Like little children, we must enter into simplicity of faith, into forthrightness and innocence, into dread of sin, into humiliation - and into the sacred folly of the cross."
~Fenelon

"To become impatient is to want what we do not have, and not to want what we do have. In so doing, the soul is handed over to its passions, and neither reasoning nor faith can hold it back, so trouble is it. Such weakness! Such swerving away from the right path!
As long as we desire the soul-sickness that brings us suffering - to us it is not sickness - why would we make our sickness a reality by ceasing to desire it?
Inner peace exists not in the flesh but in the will. We can hold onto peace in the midst of the most violent suffering, as long as the will remains firm and submissive to God despite its abhorrence of the situation. Peace on this earth consists in accepting the things that are contrary to our desires, not in being exempted from suffering them, nor in being delivered from all temptations."
~Fenelon

Sacraments are very specific events in which God touches us through creation and transforms us into living Christs.
~Henri Nouwen

He is the same, yet we all come to the table with something different to share. It's all Jesus and it's all true.
~Richard Rohr

"Do not covet your neighbor's goods" (Exodus 20:17) is almost impossible for the western world to see as a problem. It's almost impossible for us to see this as a moral issue, liberal or conservative, because it is called capitalism.

~Richard Rohr, Spiral of Violence

" The idea of this pursuit by the Hound of Heaven fascinated me. The recurrance of it, the inevitableness of the outcome made me feel that sooner or later I would have to pause in the mad rush of living and remember my first beginning and my last end."
~Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness (as quoted by R. Foster in Streams of Living Water)

"Would you be delivered from the haste that is about you? Then seek first of all and always to be delivered from the haste that is within you."
~Weavings (as quoted by Mojo)

"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart."
~John Bunyan

"When we keep close to the word of Jesus, reflecting on it, 'chewing' on it, eating it as food for the soul, we will enter even more deeply into the everlasting love of God."
~Henri Nouwen

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
~Erasmus

"Everything that comes from God asks for an open and faithful heart."
~Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey

"Doubt is the ants in the pants of faith."
~Frederick Buechner

"Christianity is not a hypothesis, it is a proposal of marriage."
~Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans

"...What would happen if spiritually formed individuals formed spiritually formed communities?"
~Mojo, SFL 600 podcast

"Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership—it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God."
~Richard Foster, A Life Formed in the Spirit

"Authentic God experience liberates you from the domination system, liberates you from needing everything to be perfect or right, and liberates you to be who you really are—naked and poor."
~Richard Rohr, from Spiral of Violence

"We've experienced just enough Christianity, someone once said, to forever inoculate ourselves from wanting the real thing."

~Richard Rohr, from Spiral of Violence