James Wolfe

“A common example of Spiritual Dissonance would be; If God loves us, why does He allow so much suffering? The certainty of God’s love is the internal belief. The obviousness of human suffering is the external reality. Is God unable to end suffering? No, we must answer, because He can do whatever He wants. Therefore, He must allow or even cause suffering. But how can that be if He loves us? Something somewhere has to give or, preferably, we avoid asking the question in the first place.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Warfare

“The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

“Out of the shell of the broken heart emerges the newborn soul.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan