Carl McColman

“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
― Evelyn Underhill

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“Some people are granted the experience of very high states of consciousness, and yet if these states are not accompanied by a development of character through a prior education that involves every department of human experience, you might have an enlightened being whom you would not trust even to be a baby-sitter.”
― Kabir Edmund Helminski, The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation

“Prayer is a common link to most expressions of faith, but the question this prayer moment raises for us is: “What happens after we pray? What do we actually do in response to that for which we have prayed?”
― Leah Gunning Francis, Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community