Christian Mystics Quotes

#1. There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

James Redfield

#2. For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Gerald Stern

#3. God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being.

Amos Smith

#4. Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

Martha Beck

#5. The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

Louis Sullivan

#6. It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

Joseph Haydn

#7. I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

John Kricfalusi

#8. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Tony Campolo

#9. Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

Karen Armstrong

#10. In Yuan" Alizadeh whispered to Kiram, "they have a word for a man who fights a darkness he cannot defeat."

"What is it?" Kiram asked.

"A fool," Alizadeh replied.

Ginn Hale

#11. Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.

Amos Smith

#12. Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.

St. John Climacus

#13. You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics feels optional, something it's safe to ignore. Most people in the world have it forced on them

Hari Kunzru

#14. I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Amos Smith

#16. Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.

Jim Hightower

#17. In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Karl Rahner

#18. All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space

Richard Powers

#19. I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.

Eoin Colfer

#20. Theology at its best doesn't seek to solve, but to behold.

Amos Smith

#21. Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.

Willigis Jager