The Pursuit of God

We must ascend a step at a time. If we refuse one step we bring our progress to an end.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things.

it would seem that there is within each of us an enemy which we tolerate at our peril. Jesus called it "life" and "self," or as we would say, the self-life

Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne

Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight

The Cloud of Unknowing

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One

If we omit the "and" we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire.

Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him.