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Tag: Thomas Keating (3 entries)

Worthiness is Not the Issue

· 7 January 2008 | 85 words

Thomas Keating, in Manifesting God, says: "Worthiness is not the issue." Get over it. Stop projecting your own self-esteem issues onto God. God is God, not the god you make Him out to be. The Gospel is not about earning...

Definition of “Repent”

· 13 December 2007 | 178 words

Ask for repentance in your prayer and nothing else, neither for divine lights, nor miracles, nor prophecies, nor spiritual gifts--nothing but repentance. Repentance will bring you humility, humility will bring you the Grace of God, and God will have...

Among All That Debris

· 28 September 2007 | 616 words

Some quotations from Crisis of Faith, Crisis of Love by Thomas Keating that have been lanterns of hope along the path through the valley... The absence of the felt presence of The Lord is his normal means of increasing our...