Seek God Everywhere Quotes

“If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“God went mad out of love for us. Then we must be very lovely. What we have stressed in the past is how lovely God must be that he can love us like this. But nobody has yet said how lovely we must be, that God could fall for us like this. Both are true.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“The second notion is that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. If people want to be free, they have to be eternally vigilant.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“Charles de Foucauld,”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius