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> [“...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/our-challenge-as-christians-is-not-to-try-to-convert-people-around-us/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

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## More by John Main

> [In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/in-contemplative-prayer-we-seek-to-become-the-person-we-are-called-to/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [“St John of the Cross,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/st-john-of-the-cross/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [“love reaches out to communicate, to share, to widen the realm of its own communion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/love-reaches-out-to-communicate-to-share-to-widen-the-realm-of-its/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/meditation-begins-with-a-call-that-awakes-us-out-of-the-coma-of-self/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/meditation-simplifies-us-simplifies-us-to-the-point-where-we-can/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/the-important-aim-in-christian-meditation-is-to-allow-god-s/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/the-silence-is-there-within-us-what-we-have-to-do-is-to-enter-into-it/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [“...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/our-challenge-as-christians-is-not-to-try-to-convert-people-around-us/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/that-is-the-conviction-we-must-come-to-in-our-meditation-that-the/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

> [“The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-main/the-light-which-enlightens-us-bathes-the-whole-of-creation-but-it/)

[John Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-main/)

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