• Classes
• Retreats
• Growth In Faith Symposiums
• Diving Deep Into The Spiritual Classics
• Portraits of Holiness
  • Saint Basil the Great
  • Carlo Carretto
  • Rabbi Abraham Heschel
• Kelby's Komments
• Prayer from the Great Cloud of Witnesses
• Princeton Institute on Science and Faith
• Zondervan Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

• You are here: 
• Home > 
• Ministries > 
• Spiritual Formation > 
• Portraits of Holiness

Portraits of Holiness

Saint Basil the Great
Bishop and Doctor of the Church (330?-379)
"Are you not a robber, you who consider your own that which has been given you solely to distribute to others? This bread which you have set aside is the bread of the hungry; this garment you have locked away is the clothing of the naked; those shoes which you let rot are the shoes of him who is barefoot; those riches you have hoarded are the riches of the poor."

 

Carlo Carretto
Little Brother (1910-1988)
"The desert is always the same, the sky is always beautiful, the road deserted. ... The only thing which is always new is God."

 

Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Teacher and Prophet (1907-1972)
"I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder. And You gave it to me."

 

Saint Justin
Philosopher and Martyr (100?-165)
"You can kill us but you cannot do us any real harm."

 

Clive Staples Lewis
Writer and Teacher (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963)
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic-on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg-or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse."