The New Spiritual Exercises Quotes

“According to Father Ron Rolheiser, “American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated.”5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I sometimes think that animals, especially pets, were put into our lives to teach us how to freely give and receive love and affection, and to teach us how unconditionally God loves us.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The Christ Project might be summarized in two statements: (1) We humans are not separate from this planet nor from anyone or anything else on it or in it; and (2) we need to uplift everyone and everything on it or in it. The verb uplift is to be taken in its broadest context. We need to uplift everyone, individually and collectively—from poverty, from hunger, from ignorance, from servitude of one form or another, from lack of purpose and meaning, and so on.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin