Gerald May Quotes

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In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

Gerald May
Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

Gerald May
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

Gerald May
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Gerald May
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

Gerald May
Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for God, love for one another, love for creation, love for life itself.

Gerald May
The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

Gerald May
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

Gerald May