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“In the quantum view a person is a constellation of relationships, inner and outer: the degree of one’s relationships extends throughout space-time and endures in those who live on. Belief in the resurrection of Jesus undergirds the fact that life creates the universe, not the other way around. Space and time are not absolute; rather, they are “tools” of our mind to help organize our world. Death and immortality exist in a world without spatial or linear boundaries. Every act of physical death is an act of new life in the universe. The resurrection of Jesus reveals to us new cosmic life. Death is not the end; our bodies do not become dust, while the soul goes to heaven. Rather, through the lens of quantum physics, we now realize that death is the collapse of our “particle” aspect of life into the “wave” dimension of our relatedness. While”
― Ilia Delio, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness

“The journey of prayer for Franciscans is the discovery of God at the center of our lives. We pray not to acquire a relationship with God as if acquiring something that did not previously exist. Rather, we pray to disclose the image of God in which we are created, the God within us, that is, the one in whom we are created and in whom lies the seed of our identity. We pray so as to discover what we already have—“the incomparable treasure hidden in the field of the world and of the human heart. (St. Clare)”
― Ilia Delio O.S.F.

“Christ is not only the name of an historical personage but a reality in our own lives.”32  He uses the term “christophany” to indicate that each person bears the mystery of Christ within.”
― Ilia Delio, Christ in Evolution

“God is the newest thing there is, the youngest thing there is. God is the beginning and if we are united to God we become new again.”
― Ilia Delio, The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe