"Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God."

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

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"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

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"Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are."

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"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."

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"If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine."

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"To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself."

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"Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years."

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"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing."

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"In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!"

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"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."

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"In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature."

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"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground."

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