Carl McColman
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“The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ, which is to say, more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed to serving others and making the world a better place.”
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
“The Christian mystic therefore is one for whom God and Christ are not merely objects of belief, but living facts experimentally known first hand; and mysticism for him becomes, in so far as he responds to its demands, a life based on this conscious communion with God”
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
“What do the Christian mystics tell us? That the wisdom they offer us can literally unite us with God—or at the very least, give us such a powerful experience of God's presence that it can revolutionize our lives. The purpose of such transformed lives is not primarily to achieve a goal (like enlightenment or spiritual bliss), but rather to participate in the Holy Spirit's ongoing activity—embodying the flowing love of Christ, love that we in turn give back to God as well as to “our neighbors as ourselves.”
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
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“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
“Some people are granted the experience of very high states of consciousness, and yet if these states are not accompanied by a development of character through a prior education that involves every department of human experience, you might have an enlightened being whom you would not trust even to be a baby-sitter.”
― The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
― The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
“Prayer is a common link to most expressions of faith, but the question this prayer moment raises for us is: “What happens after we pray? What do we actually do in response to that for which we have prayed?”
― Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community
― Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community
“It is a modern mistake to think that great personalities can grow without being rooted in the rich soil of the past, in the memory of great deeds and in fidelity to promises made across the generations. Civilization is founded on covenants that cannot be broken without consequence.”
― The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
― The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

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