12 Quotes by James Finley

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.

As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It.

Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and others.

In prayer, like the stars before the rising sun, all the burdens of our autonomous self disperse before the “piercing presence” of God. God unclothes, undoes us, “prunes away every branch that does not bear fruit.” He even takes God away from us.

We meditate that we might learn to see through Christ’s eyes the divine mystery of all that surrounds us.