Theotokos Malcomb Guite You bore for me the One who came to bless And bear for all and make the broken whole. You heard His call and in...

My Dear Ignatz, You have now left the safety of the home in which you were born, in order to obtain your life’s goal, to become a judge....

We experience in God direct proportion with how much we are able to love; we experience God in inverse proportion to the unwarranted...

When we directly experience God why would you want to return to your own dim light? Would not this only give us yet another imposed,...

The Reader is not a film about sex, or Nazis, or the Holocaust, although each of these are central elements in the movie. Instead, it is...

Great sorrow comes when you realize that you have attached some small importance to your self. Yet another false mask is identified. ...

The greatest agony that accompanies the direct experience of God comes when you realize just how coarse and base are the greatest...

To experience God is to experience joy, not pleasure. This explains how you might be in pain, and yet be joyful. In fact, to not be...

Jesus neither surrounded himself with ascetics, nor did he work to recruit academics. Instead, he came to alert common labourers to the...

Why are the churches full of countless people who claim to love God, but who despise the prospect of experiencing insecurity? I have met...

Religious people, and even non-religious people who encounter a religious situation, can become caught up in emotional religious...

Without unfaltering trust, and without the courage to risk everything, you may as well give up on experiencing God. Even with these the...

...is a deep and simplified spiritual activity in which the mind and will rest in a unified and simple concentration upon God, turned to...

The church is chocked full of men and women who are convinced that the Christian life is a matter of brilliant insights, inspired...

There is nothing that you can assert. There is nothing that you can make happen. There is nothing that you can possess. Because as...

The sharpest of natural experiences is like sleep, compared with the awakening which is contemplation. The keenest and surest natural...

This direct experience of God is how we know and love God. It is as water is to a fish. It is that for which we are created; nothing...

One writer says that one reason why it is so easy to be distracted in contemplative prayer is because our mind actively works in order to...

The things we do, the actions we perform that are not distracting to our ongoing worship of God have nothing to do with the details of...