Michael Sliney

“The soul that is quick to turn to speaking and conversing is slow to turn to God.” St. John of the Cross

“God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.”  St. John of the Cross

“The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.” St. John of the Cross

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” — The Fellowship of the Ring