Speaking with Authority - Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
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Speaking with Authority - Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
while we are aware of spiritual longing, we perceive ourselves to be cut off from the deeper ground of our being, where the Silence of the Word is forever emptying itself out in being-as-creation,
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
“When word and silence are separated, the driveshaft grinds to a halt, and this deepening process is suspended. Severed from its nurturing ground in contemplative silence, word tends to become unduly analytical, linear, and dialectical. A vicious circle is set in motion. The farther one strays from the wellsprings of spiritual awareness and the see
... See moreFaith is a mode of life. Where the radical question is alive, all life becomes a hearing, a listening for permission to go on; faith is this listening—to the gospel.” Lutheranism, 41.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
we are as likely to hear a word from Hell as a word from Heaven.