“listening to one's own voice always amounts to playing it safe. Listening to God's voice, that's always an invitation to adventure.”

“In the Transfiguration we see the divinity of Jesus manifested in the radiance of His body, not the escape from it, and the Assumption shows us that He came to save us completely and not just spiritually”

“The tragedy is Peter denies Christ having seen the transfiguration. Our failure to live out the divine teachings is similarly tragic.”

“we cannot, and indeed shouldn’t, simply stay, avoiding the realities of our daily struggles. But what might those struggles look like once we’ve climbed the mountain, and given ourselves time to rest in God?”

“One sometimes sees crucifixes where the artist, to show Christ reigning gloriously from the Tree, has given him a crown to wear. But really the crucifix needs no crown – the mangled limbs of the Saviour are already his glorious regalia.”

“Good things must pass away so that the everlasting joy can be received”

“If we listen to Jesus, we will learn that we must spend time apart in prayer in the company of God and the saints; but we also learn from Jesus that we must come down from the mountain too.”

“I digress from more traditional discussions of the Transfiguration, not to diminish or dismiss them, but to add to them a sense of the sacredness and importance of Jesus’ mountain venue when He gave his disciples and believers a glimpse of His divinity, and a sense of the sacredness of our earth and creation.”

“Lent, with its emphasis on prayer, almsgiving and self-denial, provides a great opportunity for us to pause in the midst of busy lives and reflect on this change of season which mirrors the changing stages of our own lives.”

“The tragic things in the story of Jesus (above all, the Cross) and the joyful things in that story (above all, the Resurrection) go together”

“Are not my daily transformations the degrees by which I turn my face towards Jesus? The degrees by which I'm being changed into his likeness? The way in which I increase my depth and capacity to receive love itself? The degrees of holiness made possible by my attentiveness to the little things and faithfulness to my vocation over time?”

“these moments where that divinity shines forth through humanity come forth a lot more frequently and a lot more near to us than we might realize”

“We're not meant to be simply nice people, we're meant to be sons and daughters of God. We're meant to be citizens of heaven. We're meant for an elevated transfigured life.”

“How do we have access to the glory of Jesus Christ? We have access through our love for him. Christianity is about falling in love with Jesus.”

“Christians, this world we believe is real but not ultimately real. It's beautiful and good and true but it's not ultimately beautiful, good and true. In fact, it's a kind of symbol of a world that is much richer, more perfect, more intensely real.”

“Real experiences of God transform us: they make us different. Maybe different by a hair or maybe different by a radical conversion of life. But different.”

“if Lent is a time when we remember our sinfulness, and through our penance recognise our need for God’s mercy, we do so not despairing of our salvation, but always aware of the triumph over sin and death which Christ’s Resurrection reveals”

“When vocation is understood as an act of God’s grace, then fidelity to ones vocation becomes a sign of constant positive response, value of, and appreciation of God’s love”

“This is our challenge during this Lenten season: to embrace our unity with God and all people to bring about justice, peace, forgiveness and love to the world around us. Then shall all the communities of the earth find blessing in us.”

“Whenever and wherever human beings suffer, it is the moral integrity of those around them that enables them to see Jesus amid the suffering”

“If we sacrifice some of our comforts, and endure our struggles for Christ, in thanksgiving for Him sacrificing Himself for us – through that, He will give us the strength to do so, transforming us”

“We may not hear God speaking to us directly from heaven, or see Jesus standing right in front of us telling us what to do, but the Holy Spirit speaks to us deeply inside of our heart, our mind and our soul. The nagging feeling we can’t get rid of. The challenge is to listen and do something about it.”

“On any journey, if you’re not sure what your destination is, chances are you’ll never get there; so as pilgrims on the Christian journey, we need this glimpse of our heavenly destination to help us get there”

“Maybe like Peter we sometimes want to cling on to the good bits, not lose the ‘highs’. But life can’t always be on the heights. As we follow in the footsteps of the Beloved Son, our journey of faith will often demand of us the constancy of Abraham.”

“there are kind of two types of people in the world. Some who suck air out of a room, others that breathe life into a room.”

“What is prayer?...One way to characterize it, it's attentive listening to God.”