I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith
Joan D. Chittister
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
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The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
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Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.
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Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
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Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.
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