John Main > Quotes

“...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.”
― John Main

“That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.”
― John Main, Way of Unknowing: Expanding Spiritual Horizons through Meditation

“The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture”
― John Main, Word into Silence

“love reaches out to communicate, to share, to widen the realm of its own communion.”
― John Main, Word into Silence: A Manual for Christian Meditation

“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.”
― John Main, Fully Alive: An Introduction to Christian Meditation

“We are created for something more serious than just a day-to-day survival.”
― John Main, Radical Simplicity

“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”
― John Main, El camino de la meditacion

“St John of the Cross,”
― John Main, Way of Unknowing: Expanding Spiritual Horizons through Meditation