Quotes about Formation

This formation of man from soft clay, and of woman from a hard bone, also illustrated why man was so much more easily reconcilable than woman.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.

Philip Nation is right when he says the foundational truth of discipleship is this: "Love is the central discipline of the Christian life. Everything else will flow from that as the centerpiece of spiritual formation.

If we are to begin to push back against this, we have to understand how meditating on God's Word is central to worldview formation.

If we are to begin to push back against this, we have to understand how meditating on God's Word is central to worldview formation.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

The Church is not self-made, it was created by God and is continuously formed by Him. This finds expression in the Sacraments, above all in that of Baptism: I enter into the Church not by a bureaucratic act, but with the help of this Sacrament.

One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

We know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.

Opus Dei's authority extends only to the personal spiritual formation of its members.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.