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One Lord, one faith, one baptism. Sayings of the saints — East and West, ancient and modern — gathered as a single choir, to be tasted slowly.
November’s gathering · a fresh selection each month
The whole choir of the Great Tradition.
“Do not be afraid; only believe.”
“I have found Heaven on earth, since Heaven is God, and God is in my soul.”
“Love, and do what you will.”
“Superficiality is the curse of our age. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”
“Acquire a peaceful spirit, and around you thousands will be saved.”
“To come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not.”
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
“I have prayed for forty years to be delivered from anger, and the Lord has not yet heard me. So I keep praying.”
“The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
“Watchfulness is a continual fixing of one’s gaze on the Jesus Prayer.”
“Do not seek to be loved; seek to love. The one who loves is the one who is at rest.”
“We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly.”
“Always we begin again.”
“In the evening of life, we shall be judged on love alone.”
“He who has reached unceasing prayer has reached the very heart of the law and the prophets.”
“The greatest issue facing the world today is whether those who are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples.”
“That they may all be one… so that the world may believe.” — John 17:21