Leadership
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
Spirituality - Spirituality
in the Episcopal tradition runs delightfully close to daily life, in the
lilting manner of Celtic Christians, rather than to esoteric practice that
takes people away from everyday experience. Examples of it's multifaceted
insights suggest their flavor:
Even though God cannot be comprehended, God can be loved. By love, not thought, he can be taken and held. The Cloud of Unknowing
Each day has its evening, and so also has life...Stay with me, Lord, for evening is coming, and the day of this fretful life is far spent. May your strength be made perfect in my weakness. Lancelot Andrews
Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see, and what I do in anything, to do it as for thee. George Herbert
To have blessings and to prize them is to be in Heaven; to have them and not to prize them is to be in Hell. Thomas Taherne
God's in his heaven - all's right with the world. Robert Browning
I love the angels, they stand for something we cannot otherwise express. Friedrich von Hugel
You are the block, God is the sculptor; you cannot know what He is hitting you for, and you never will in this life. John Chapman
Prayer opens the door of the psyche to the invasion of another order, which shall at its full term transform the very quality of our existence. Evelyn Underhill