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1. From Walking the Aisle to Walking a Path: Awakening

  • . Dallas Willard, quoted in John Ortberg, The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People (Zondervan, 2002), 66.

  • . David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis (InterVarsity Press, 2005), 81.

  • . Jonathan R. Bailey, “What Is the Threefold Way? Uncovering the Beginning, Middle, and End of Our Spiritual Transformation,” Three Weekly Lights, Substack, December 27, 2022, www.threeweeklylights.com/p/what-is-the-threefold-way.

  • . Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995), 66.

    • Part 1: Purgation: From Performing for God to Participating with God

  • . Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated from Latin to Modern English (Bruce Publishing Co., 1940), chapter 56.

    • 2. Abandoning Quick Fixes for a Long Journey: Training

  • . Abraham H. Maslow, “Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation,” in Toward a Psychology of Being, ed. Richard J. Lowry (Van Nostrand, 1962), 21-43.

  • . “How Was a Crucifixion Performed?,” Bible Reading Archeology (blog), August 28, 2018, https://biblereadingarcheology.com/2018/08/28/how-was-a-crucifixion-performed/.

  • . John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, trans. Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell (Paulist Press, 1982), 29. The quote appears in Step 15.

  • . John Chryssavgis, trans., Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2014), 199.

  • . Pseudo-John Chrysostom, “On Fasting and Almsgiving,” in Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, ed. J.-P. Migne, vol. 48 (Paris: Migne, 1862), cols. 1059-1062, at col. 1060 (CPG 4502).

  • . Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, trans. Benedictine monks of St. Bernard Abbey (Image Books, Doubleday, 1989), 35.

  • . Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1956), 37.

  • . François Fénelon, The Complete Fénelon, trans. and ed. Robert J. Edmondson and Hal M. Helms, (Paraclete Press, 2008), 26.

  • . Porphyrios, Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of Saint Porphyrios (Denise Harvey, 2005), 162.

    • 3. Giving Up Certainty to Embrace Mystery: Affliction

  • . C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (HarperOne, 2001), 91.

  • . A. W. Tozer, The Crucified Life: How to Live Out a Deeper Christian Experience (Bethany House Publishers, 2011), 199-200.

  • . Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God’s Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness (Baker Books, 2021), 58.

  • . As quoted in Richard Giannone, “Making It in Darkness,” Flannery O’Connor Review 6 (2008): 103.

  • . Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 347.

  • . Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993), 214.

  • . David Bentley Hart, The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (Eerdmans, 2005), 101-2.

  • . See Rolland Hein, George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker (Johannesen Publishing, 1993), 224.

  • . Hart, Doors of the Sea, 104.

    • 4. Releasing Perfection for Progress: Temptation

  • . Basil the Great, On the Human Condition, trans. Nonna Verna Harrison (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2005), 23-24.

  • . Brennan Manning, “God Loves You as You Are, Not as You Should Be,” Fumbling with Faith, January 4, 2018, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=notoc1FWl4k, 12:01.

  • . Herbert McCabe, Faith Within Reason (Continuum, 2007), 158.

  • . As quoted in Charles H. Spurgeon, “Satan Considering the Saints,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. 11 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1865).

  • . George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, Series One–Three (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867–1891), esp. sermons “Justice,” “The Consuming Fire,” and “The Higher Faith.”

  • . Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23 (Zondervan, 2018), 143.

  • . C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (Macmillan, 1952), 37.

    • 5. Replacing Inspiration with Intention: Rule of Life

  • . Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 316, 370.

  • . William Harmless, Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Oxford University Press, 2004), 57-97.

  • . Harmless, Desert Christians, 115-32.

  • . Timothy Fry, introduction to Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of St. Benedict in English, ed. Timothy Fry (Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1998), xxvii.

  • . Willard, Divine Conspiracy, 370.

  • . Dallas Willard, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship (HarperOne, 2006), 61.

  • . Thérèse de Lisieux, The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, trans. Michael Day (Newman Press, 1955), 192.

  • . Mother Maria Skobtsova, Essential Writings, ed. and trans. Oliver Clement (Orbis Books, 2003), 30.

  • . Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of St. Benedict in English, ed. Timothy Fry (Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1998), 22.

  • . As quoted in Esther de Waal, Lost in Wonder: Rediscovering the Spiritual Art of Attentiveness (Liturgical Press, 2003), 64.

    • 6. Letting Go of Bargaining for Breathing: Prayer

  • . Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (InterVarsity Press, 1999), 28.

  • . Helen Bacovcin, trans., The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way (Image Books, 1978).

  • . Simone Weil, Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009), 57.

  • . Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 7.

  • . Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism (Renaissance Classics, 2012), 267.

  • . Archbishop Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray (Paulist Press, 1970), 78.

  • . See Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, trans. Richard Whitford, modernized ed. (Image Books, 1989), book 1, esp. chaps. 3, 11, and 13.

  • . François Fénelon, The Complete Fénelon, trans. and ed. Robert J. Edmondson and Hal M. Helms (Paraclete Press, 2008), 90.

    • 7. Surrendering Pretense for Patience: Humility

  • . Paul Anderson and Richard J. Foster, “Forty Years of Celebration of Discipline: An Interview with Richard Foster,” Renovaré, (n.d.), https://renovare.org/articles/celebrating-40-years-of-celebration-of-discipline.

  • . Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives (HarperOne, 1990), ix.

  • . John Wortley, trans., Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2014), 131.

  • . As quoted in “On Patience 1.1,” in Romans, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, ed. Gerald Bray, vol. 6 (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998), 54–55.

  • . “Saint Teresa’s Bookmark,” a prayer traditionally attributed to Teresa of Ávila, found in her breviary and widely cited in collections of her prayers and sayings.

  • . Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life (Hodder & Stoughton, 1937; repr. Morehouse, 1984), 35.

  • . Wortley, trans., Give Me a Word, 61.

  • . Friedrich von Hügel, Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece, ed. Gwendolen Greene (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1928), 6.

  • . Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith (HarperOne, 2009), 162.

    • 8. Relinquishing the Need to be Seen for the Gift of Seeing Others: Glory

  • . Henri J. M. Nouwen, Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with Icons (Ave Maria Press, 2007), 51.

  • . Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice (Eerdmans, 2014), 75.

  • . Mother Maria Skobtsova, Essential Writings, ed. and trans. Oliver Clement (Orbis Books, 2003), 30.

  • . The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church, vol. 5 (Sebastian Press, 1998), 164.

  • . Sergius Bulgakov, Spiritual Diary, trans. and intro. Mark Roosien and Roberto J. De La Noval (Angelico Press, 2022), 158.

  • . Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity (Eerdmans, 1987), 150.

  • . Richard Foster, “Spiritual Formation Agenda,” Christianity Today, January 2009, www.christianitytoday.com/2009/02/spiritual-formation-agenda/.

  • . Attributed to Fred Rogers in his work on the TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

  • . Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Method in Theology (University of Toronto Press, 2017), 113.

    • 9. Trading the Illusion of Control for the Reality of Love: Charity

  • . George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011), 226.

  • . John Behr, Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2013).

  • . Behr, Becoming Human, 35.

    • 10. From the Status of Arrival to the Joy of Endless Becoming: Ascent

  • . Gary Black Jr., Preparing for Heaven: What Dallas Willard Taught Me About Living, Dying and Eternal Life (HarperCollins, 2015), x.

  • . George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons (1867–1889; repr., Cosimo, 2007), 206.

  • . Augustine, Confessions, bk. 4, chap. 12.

  • . Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, ed. Norman Wirzba (Counterpoint, 2002), 187.

  • . Rolland Hein, George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker (Star Song, 1993).

  • . Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1948), 419.

  • . Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses (Paulist Press, 1978), 12.

  • . Merton, Seven Storey Mountain, 419.

  • . C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951; repr. Scholastic, 1987), 136.

  • . Karl Rahner, “The Eternal Significance of the Humanity of Jesus for Our Relationship with God,” in Theological Investigations, vol. 3, trans. by Karl-H. Kruger and Boniface Kruger (Helicon Press, 1967), 35-46.

  • . Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way (St. Vladimir’s Press, 1986), 93.

  • . Trevor Hudson, Beyond Loneliness: The Gift of God’s Friendship (Upper Room, 2016), 16.

  • . C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (1949; repr., HarperOne, 2001), 44.

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