Daniel

“Christ has freed us from the past with its infinite complexities. In Him we have become "new creatures" and begun a new life, owing nothing to anyone, writing in our book, "Now I am beginning..."

What matter is your past, your sin? Now walk in the newness you have found and sin no more.”
― Carlo Carretto, The God Who Comes

“A friend said to me: "Don't ask me to waste time praying. Don't ask me to look for God in the solitude of your desert. For me, God is in man, and I will search for rapport with Him by serving man."

What can I reply? "Please God, may you succeed! Please God, may you be capable of so much! You say this to me because you do not yet know man, you do not yet know your weakness in serving man! Keeping an attitude of love and service before the tabernacle of man when you have discovered his egoism, arrogance, and capacity for betrayal, is a frightening and demanding task.”
― Carlo Carretto, The God Who Comes

“Only very late do we learn the price of the risk of believing, because only very late do we face up to the idea of death.

This is what is difficult. Believing truly means dying. Dying to everything: to our reasoning, to our plans, to our past, to our childhood dreams, to our attachment to earth, and sometimes even to the sunlight, as at the moment of our physical death.”
― Carlo Carretto, The God Who Comes

“Very often we do not find sufficient intensity in our prayer, sufficient conviction, sufficient faith, because our despair is not deep enough. We want God in addition to so many other things we have, we want His help, but simultaneously we are trying to get help wherever we can, and we keep God in store for our last push. We address ourselves to the princes and the sons of men, and we say "O God, give them strength to do it for me." Very seldom do we turn away from the princes and sons of men and say "I will not ask anyone for help, I would rather have Your help." If our despair comes from sufficient depth, if what we ask for, cry for, is so essential that it sums up all the needs of our life, then we find words of prayer and we will be able to reach the core of the prayer, the meeting with God.”
― Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray