"If you don't come apart for awhile, you will come apart after awhile." – Dallas Willard

"Without solitude it is virtually impossible to have a spiritual life." – Henri Nouwen

"The spiritual life has to do with how God relates to us and how we relate to God. Prayer is the essential expression of that relationship." – Marjorie Thompson

"In informational reading we seek to grasp the control, to master the text. In transformational reading, the intent is to allow the text to master you." – Robert Mulholland

"We are not human beings trying to become spiritual; we are spiritual beings trying to become human." – Teilhard de Chardin

"(One) never attains to true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself." – John Calvin This retreat will be held VIRTUALLY

"Finding God in all things in order that we might love and serve God in all." – St. Ignatius of Loyola This retreat will be held with both IN PERSON and VIRTUAL options

"Mission cannot be discerned without formation, nor can mission be sustained without an ongoing commitment to transformation in Christ's presence." – Ruth Haley Barton

"Ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat. Ask me what I am living for and what is keeping me from living fully for that." – Thomas Merton