Quotes from James J. Martin

All of our lives are important, even the parts of our past that we have ignored, downplayed, or forgotten. If we open the door to our past, we will discover God there, accompanying us in both happy and sad moments.

When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

All of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd. It helps sometimes to look not just at what we're leaving behind and what God promises us, but also at what God has shown us already. Just look at all those fish.

No matter how often I pray, how many retreats I make, or how hard I try, I still sin. It is something that I bump up against daily.