Margaret Silf > Quotes

“we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction”
― Margaret Silf , Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

“We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground”
― Margaret Silf

“We are because God is”
― Margaret Silf, 2011: A Book of Grace-Filled Days

“The plants and animals and even our small children know, with a wisdom deeper than ours, that the Way is simply about growing and becoming whoever we really are, in the core of our being. It is about recognising the acorn in our hearts and trusting the process by which it will become an oak. It is about co-operating with that process of becoming, about keeping our feet on the earth of our own lived experience even as we reach out to the horizon beyond us. And it is about letting our own personal becoming be fully engaged with the evolution, physical, intellectual and spiritual, of the whole of creation.”
― Margaret Silf, Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

“God," he said, "is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“Can we apply this expression to our own belief in the reality of God in our lives and our world? As”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“time-out here on the edge of ourselves.”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“more powerful than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time is come’.”
― Margaret Silf, Lighted Windows: An Advent calendar for a world in waiting

“Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“because God has no edges, no boundaries, no limits.”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“but also seems to include a heightened awareness in people everywhere”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“His confession is said to have taken three days to make, and he received absolution from one of the monks there. He exchanged his nobleman's dress for the simple outfit of a poor pilgrim and made a night vigil”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“only that "WHO-center" were obvious and accessible, and if only we could steer our course by it, knowing truly that God is in all things and all choices, seeking to draw the more life-giving outcome from all we do.”
― Margaret Silf, Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

“One of the many variations might be ‘one who sees the distant vision”
― Margaret Silf, The Wisdom Years: A Spirituality of Ageing: Reflection and Ripening, Harvest and Homecoming