Inspiration

Spiritual Direction: What Great Teachers Say

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
– Henri Nouwen

It is easier to find someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
– Eugene H. Peterson

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
– Richard J. Foster

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface, to get behind the façade which one presents to the world, and to bring out one’s inner spiritual freedom and inmost truth.
– Thomas Merton

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.
– Richard J. Foster

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. “Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord,” she said, “And never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this, and you’ll be fine.”
– John Eldredge

“When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”
– C. S. Lewis

“Spiritual direction is a very simple process of putting out what you really want and most deeply desire, and having someone to respond to that, and help you live from what you really want.”
– Sr Mary Ann Scofield

“A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself.”
– Sri Aurobindo

“If you are driven by the right WHY, God will lead you to the right WHAT.”
– Anonymous

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