Spiritual Direction Quotes
Spiritual Direction Quote of the day
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment.
Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.
We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.
Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.
Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.