Jim Vivanco

“Would that I could make musicians out of stone, and dancers out of the sand of the lake, and minstrels out of the leaves of all the trees in the mountains, so that they might help me glorify the Lord-and so that the voice of the earth might be heard amidst the choirs of angels!”
― St. Nikolai Velimirovich, Prayers by the Lake

“Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear.”
― Anonymous

“The future is fantasy--it doesn’t exist--but the needy and demanding person you may have to give yourself to today is reality.  Christianity is the reality of Christ in us, and not the fantasy.”
― Jeri Massi, Secret Radio by Grace Jovian: My Senior Year at a Christian Fundamentalist College by Grace Jovian

“The proud man thinks he can comprehend everything with his mind but God does not grant this. But we know the Lord: He has made Himself manifest to us in the Holy Spirit, and the soul knows Him, and is joyful and glad and at ease, and in this lies our hallowed life.”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes