Gerald May Quotes

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• Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally.…
• Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to…
• Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must…
• When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness…
• Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for…
• Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean…
• To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
• In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.
• Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any…
• True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.
• Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.
• I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
• Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
• To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.
• The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

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