8 Quotes by Christine Valters Paintner

Practices help us to bring the reality of what we seek into the physicality and earthiness of our lives.

In his Rule, St. Benedict wisely writes that “always we begin again.

And don’t we all, with fierce hunger, crave a cave of solitude, a space of deep listening – full of quiet darkness and stars, until finally we hear a syllable of God echoing in the cave of our hearts? – MACRINA WIEDERKEHR.

While we must venture far to find our “true self,” it is also always with us.

The desert is also a place where we can face our own demons and shadows and be cleansed of them.

We cannot become so impatient for the destination that we arrive before we are ready.

Pilgrimage, in this sense, can mean the life journeys we take in response to unwelcomed circumstances.

God is never a set of concepts to be understood but a relationship to encounter.