John Main Quotes

• The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

  John Main

  Silence, Meditation, Challenges

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• In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

  John Main

  God, Religious, Prayer

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• Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

  John Main

  Meditation, Fullness, Simplify

  John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• 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 reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.

  John Main

  Christian, Reality, Giving

  John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.3, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• 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 to that call from the deepest center of our awakened consciousness...by letting to in meditation we learn how to love.

  John Main

  Self, Meditation, How To Love

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• That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

  John Main

  Light, Meditation, Darkness

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