All Creation has an Order

All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

Maple leaves in Maine

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Our Journey Demands It

Let us go, for the length of our journey demands it.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Acadia National Park

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

The Love that Moves the Stars

God is the love that moves the sun and stars.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVII, lines 28–30 (tr. Sinclair). 

Sunset from Cadillac Mountain

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

God’s Will Is Our Peace

And [God’s] will is our peace; this is the sea
To which is moving onward whatsoever
It doth create, and all that nature makes.

– Dante Alighieri, Canto III, lines 85–87 (tr. Longfellow).

Bailey Island, Maine

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

We Came to See

We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Behold the Grass

Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.

– Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Radiancies of the Perfected Vision

These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer what it sees.
― Dante Alighieri, The Paradiso

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Universe Resembling God

Among themselves all things
Have order; and from hence the form, which makes
The universe resemble God.

― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Assorted pottery in Orvieto

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Light in the Beyond

A light there is in the beyond which makes the Creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding Him finds peace.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

 

Rose Window in Chartres Cathedral

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Be a Solid Tower

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. 
– Dante Alighieri

Carcassone Tower

This month, on November 12th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page