Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living Quotes

“This is not a human quality or skill but a gift of God that is both sign and guarantee that we are already living on a supernatural plane. Such love is a gift because it cannot be self-generated. It arises out of an encounter with God.”
― Michael Casey, Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living: Reflections on the Fourth Chapter of Benedict's Rule

“One of the great dangers faced by monastic practitioners is that, after a few months or a few years or a few decades, we become weary of investing so much effort in the spiritual pursuit with so little evidence of having made very much progress.”
― Michael Casey, Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living: Reflections on the Fourth Chapter of Benedict's Rule