Is there life before death? — that is the question! - Anthony de Mello

God went mad out of love for us. Then we must be very lovely. What we have stressed in the past is how lovely God must be that he can love us like this. But nobody has yet said how lovely we must be, that God could fall for us like this. Both are true.

The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.