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“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political conflict and an increase in violence and aggression.”
― Ilia Delio, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness

“God is the newness of everything that is and is coming to be. God is ever newness in love. Transcendence, therefore, is the future beyond that draws us in the present movement toward greater wholeness and unity.”
― Ilia Delio, The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe

“To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.”
― Ilia Delio, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness

“The journey of prayer for Franciscans is the discovery of God at the center of our lives. We pray not to acquire a relationship with God as if acquiring something that did not previously exist. Rather, we pray to disclose the image of God in which we are created, the God within us, that is, the one in whom we are created and in whom lies the seed of our identity. We pray so as to discover what we already have—“the incomparable treasure hidden in the field of the world and of the human heart. (St. Clare)”
― Ilia Delio O.S.F.