Category Archives: Quotations

Here is a cool quotation from Julian of Norwich from the Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals: “I often wondered why, through the great prescient wisdom of God, the beginning of sin was not prevented. For then it seemed to me that would have been well. I mourned and I sorrowed on this account,Continue reading “Julian of Norwich quotation”

Here is a quotation of Brother Lawrence, author of The Practice of the Presence of God, “Men (and women) invent means and methods of coming at God’s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousnessContinue reading “Brother Lawrence Quotation”

Good thoughts by Cyprian, a 3rd Century Bishop from N. Africa: “The Lord has given us a pattern of prayer, instructing us on how we are to pray. He has made it easy for us to be heard as we pray to the Father in the worlds taught us by the Son. What prayer couldContinue reading “Cyprian and the Lord’s Prayer”

This is a cool quotation from Buechner, it was in the Common Prayer: Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals: “A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can’t prove a thing, but there’s something about his eyes and his voice. There’s something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way heContinue reading “Frederick Buechner quotation”

Basil of Caesarea (330-379) was an influential thinker/preacher during a pivotal time in early Church history. He was a leader in the monastic movement, starting a place called “The New City” (also called Basiliad). This community of men and women provided medical care, food, clothing, and shelter to the poor of Caesarea. “When someone stealsContinue reading “Basil of Caesarea”

I found this quotation in the Common Prayer: A Liturgy of Ordinary Radicals about George Fox: George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, wrote, “People must be led out of captivity to God. Be patterns, be examples that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. ThenContinue reading “George Fox Quotation”

“The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this.”