Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Spiritual formation means the creation of safe and trustworthy communal spaces where the soul is welcomed and invited to show up, to speak its truth, and to make its claim on the living of our lives.

Parker J. Palmer

The Trinity Institute

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Thomas Merton

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw—and knew I saw—all things in God and God in all things.

Mechtild of Magdeburg

We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system.

Thomas Berry, C.P. (1914-2009)

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, 'This is what I believe. Finished.' What I believe is alive ... and open to growth.

Madeleine L'Engle

Christianity is breathtakingly simple. Christianity is loving God by knowing Jesus and changing the world.

Marcus Borg