.... a really good marriage is just as costly as a genuine interior life with God. it is probably almost as rare, too, and for the same reasons. This is why others ... have seen real human love as the essential road to God for most people. We learn in flesh and blood circumstances the real meaning of love; we also discover that even the deepest human love leaves us somehow incomplete unless it is rooted in God, who can ground a love which is total self-giving and survive beyond death. (pg.122)

prayer is the loving that flows from a deeper and deeper knowing (pg. 91)

i had to learn to seek the God of consolations and not the consolations of God. (pg 104)

the joy of experiencing God in prayer is not an end in itself, but is the water by which the virtues are strengthened and brought to full flowering. -pg 77



-quotes from the book: "when the well runs dry," by thomas green.


why...am i so blessed to have studied these words and thoughts? how overwhelmed my heart has been from all the books and ideas i have contemplated and taken in the past few years. may i let them sift through me and impact my heart the ways in which you desire, Lord. one cannot go unchanged though this process... soften my heart to your hands that desire to shape and form me to be and experience things more fully and humanly. may we have eyes to see the water that may be trickling in our souls which point to a promise of the abundant springs of life promised to us. may we hold to that hope those abundant springs exist and not become content with the mere trickle. teach us to be with you...and not seek you for merely consolation.