9 Quotes by Chris Manion

I cherish this book review from the former Executive Director of Contemplative Outreach: A beautiful book. This elegant and authentic memoir of a faith-filled woman shows how it is possible to be very successful and yetvulnerable enough to completely depend on the indwelling Spirit. -Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler

Chris Manion has created a handbook, in the form of a memoir, on how to let the beauty of life be a feast for the soul. Through trial and triumph, she carefully examines the potential in each moment, and each time breaks through to something significant, instructive, and graceful. It is a joy to behold. ...real insight into living life in the light. - Marion Roach Smith

Situations that provide no easy or unobtrusive escape, frustrate me. I was doubly irritated because I'd put myself in this one.

In the same way that we love God with the love He's given us, I played music back to the author of music itself.

The only thing that matters is our actions, the intentions of our heart .

I struggled to find just the right words so He would understand the nature and motive of my request. It suddenly dawned on me that I was an idiot. "What a goose," Pascaline Coff whispered to me when I told this story to her fellow Benedictine sisters. God already knew my heart.

If I open my eyes, I just may die, I thought.

In whatever way you can do so, according to the talents and gifts God has given you, you are to be salt, and light, and whatever part of the Body of Christ you were made to be. You need to tell us what's going on with you so the rest of the Body (of which you are a part) can work together with you.

To say that God was the highest priority in my life while He got the least amount of my time created a personal integrity problem for me Establishing my early morning half hour of prayer helped me rebalance my time with my highest priorities.