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Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to ...

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on having a human king rather than resting on the theocrati...

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain....

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, rede...

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When ...

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch wit...

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth