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Spiritual Quotes
"I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me."
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"As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with unhurrying and imperturbed pace, so does God follow the fleeing soul by His Divine grace. And though in sin or in human love, away from God it seeks to hide itself, Divine grace follows after, unwearyingly follows ever after, till the soul feels its pressure forcing it to turn to Him alone in that never ending pursuit."
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"Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?"
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"The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides."
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"Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness, you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this."
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"The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy and his followers do the same. Be watchful and keep that in mind."
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"Remember the Creator in the days of your youth."
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"I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible."
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"Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours."
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"Christmas has a dark side. It's painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That's the real sparkle in Christmas."
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"Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love."
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"God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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"We ought to pray persistently."
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"To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
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"My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study."
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"At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth."
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"The Holy Spirit knows precisely the right timing in our lives. I always say, "Only the Holy Spirit knows when you are ready for what." In other words, the Spirit of the Lord is the only One Who knows what it will take to help you, and when you are ready to receive help."
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"We cannot suppress our defining humanity and innate spirituality. The quivering pulsation of life force buried within the scarlet corpus of our blood waits like a winged angel adamant to erupt from a cocoon of unholy encapsulation whenever we return to ligature of our primitive essence."
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"When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is."
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"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."
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"Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat."
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"I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it. What they came together for was to acknowledge, just by coming, their losses and failures and sorrows, their need for comfort, their faith always needing to be greater, their wish (in spite of all words and acts to the contrary) to love one another and to forgive and be forgiven, their need for one another's help and company and divine gifts, their hope (and experience) of love surpassing death, their gratitude."
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"Saint Anthony said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company."
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"You are precious and special possession of God."
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