Quotes from John Main

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

Cuando meditamos eso es exactamente lo que hacemos. Dejamos a Dios ser Dios. Nos dejamos estar en su presencia. Ese es su extraordinario poder. Cronol

We are created for something more serious than just a day-to-day survival.

love reaches out to communicate, to share, to widen the realm of its own communion.

Perhaps most of us spend so much of our time thinking about the past or planning for the future that there is a very real danger that we never fully come to terms with the present.

The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture

St John of the Cross,

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.