Living with Contradiction Quotes

“To seek God means first of all to let yourself be found by him. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the God of Jesus Christ. He is your God
not because He is yours but because you are His. To choose God is to realize that you are known and loved in a way surpassing anything you can imagine long before anyone had thought of you or spoken your name.”
― Esther de Waal, Living With Contradiction: An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality

“There is no once and for all moment when we can say that at last we are whole, the past is buried and over, the hurts forgotten, the wounds healed. Instead we find that it is to be a search that we must expect to continue throughout our lives.”
― Esther de Waal, Living with Contradiction: An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality

“The promise of the Kingdom is not that we shall escape the hard things but that we shall be given grace to face them, to enter into them, and to come through them. The promise is not that we shall not be afraid. It is that we need not fear fear.”
― Esther de Waal, Living with Contradiction: An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality