Grasp the Creator through His creation, seeing Him reflected in created things as the sun is reflected in water, since in their inner beings they are in varying degrees images of the primal cause of all.
— Saint Theodoric the Great (475-526)
Open your ears to the voices of nature, and you will hear them in concert inviting you to the love of God.
— Blessed Louis de Granada (1505-1588)
To all earth’s creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure.
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
In the Passion and death of Christ our sins were consumed by fire. If we accept that in faith, and if we accept the whole Christ in faith-filled surrender, which means, however, that we choose and walk the path of the imitation of Christ, then he will lead us “through his Passion and cross to the glory of his Resurrection.” This is exactly what is experienced in contemplation: passing through the expiatory flames to the bliss of the union of love. This explains its twofold character. It is death and resurrection.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit around and pluck blackberries.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1851)
