This site collects the best insights I've come across in my reading of the great works of Christian spirituality from across the millenia and today
Victor Shepherd insists that our life story isn't the story of us - it's too small.
God is love. God loves all of us and wants us to experience abundant life. This means abiding in love—love of God, and love of neighbors as ourselves. Through prayer and worship, meditation and silence, we can commune with God,... Continue Reading →
Evelyn Underhill explains the first step on the path to contemplation: recollection
Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. G.K. Chesterton
Evelyn Underhill unpacks her definition of mysticism as the art of union with Reality.
The price of connection is pain…A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all. Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled
He who will, in the long run, be satisfied with nothing less than perfection, will also be delighted with the first feeble, stumbling effort you make tomorrow to do the simplest duty. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Merton explains how it is not material things that are evil, but rather our false self that forges sinful relationships with them.
