Forgotten Among the Lilies Quotes

“So much of our unhappiness comes from comparing our lives, our friendships, our loves, our commitments, our duties, our bodies and our sexuality to some idealized and non-Christian vision of things which falsely assures us that there is a heaven on earth. When that happens, and it does, our tensions begin to drive us mad, in this case to a cancerous restlessness.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears

“To dream the dream of fewness is to know, right within the restless stirring of one’s own heart, that one is, as both Scripture and philosophy affirm, fired into life with a madness that comes from the gods and which demands that one attain a great love.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears