Sacred Exploration Quotes

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.