John Main Professions : Priest Born : 1926 Died : 1982 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by John Main Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love. John Main fullness simplify meditation The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit. John Main silence meditation challenges In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be John Main religious prayer god The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are. John Main christian giving reality Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that call from the deepest center of our awakened consciousness...by letting to in meditation we learn how to love. John Main how-to-love meditation self That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light. John Main light meditation darkness It's really just incredibly sad. We're a small community and when something like this happens, it affects the whole community. John Main top-news Similar Authors Andrew Greeley priest Anthony of Padua priest Angelus Silesius priest Alfred Delp priest Bob Maguire priest Alexander Schmemann priest All Authors
