Mysterious Ways: Thoughtworthy Quotes

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“Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.” —Carlo Carretto, Author

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“…God beholds himself and all things in an eternal now, without before and after.” —John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish Mystic

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“The fullness of joy is to behold God in all.” —Julian of Norwich

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“There is so little distance between heaven and earth that God always hears us. Nothing but a thin veil separates us from God.” —Saint Andre Bessette

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“Death is the golden key that opens the place of eternity.”—John Milton, English Poet

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“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul…” —Carl Jung

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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder. —Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All are parts of one stupendous whole,

Whose body Nature is,

and God the soul.

—Alexander Pope

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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour…”

—William Blake

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“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.” —John O’Donohue

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“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” —Emily Dickinson

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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” —Saint Francis of Assisi

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“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” —Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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“The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.” —Bernadette Roberts

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I am always humbled by the indefinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.” —E.B. White

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“Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.” —Margaret Feinberg

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“Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.” —William Griffith Wilson

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“The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.” —Saint John of the Cross

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“Wonder encourages us to stand humbly before the  unfathomable mysteries of human life, trusting that, in them, we encounter God.” —Sister Melannie Svoboda, Author of Traits of a Healthy Spirituality

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“Take time, slow down, “be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.”—Edward Hays, A Pilgrim’s Almanac