Hidden Mountain, Secret Garden Quotes

“The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy.  The search for the Lord within is the effort to find those places in the substance of the soul where God’s mercy and human misery touch each other, where one has bearing on the other.”
― Anthony Lilles, Hidden Mountain, Secret Garden

“In fairytales, once order is restored, the prince and the princess are married and live happily ever after.  In real life, faith anticipates but does not fully realize the real happy ending because we are still in the middle of the story.”
― Anthony Lilles, Hidden Mountain, Secret Garden

“God’s fullness and human emptiness: the collision of these opposing forces is dangerous.”
― Anthony Lilles, Hidden Mountain, Secret Garden