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... beloved . How it represents all his attributes . How it leads by the best of means to the best of ends . For this reason it cannot be loved too much . God the author and God the end is to be loved in it . Angels and men are to be loved ...
... beloved . How it represents all his attributes . How it leads by the best of means to the best of ends . For this reason it cannot be loved too much . God the author and God the end is to be loved in it . Angels and men are to be loved ...
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... beloved's satisfaction more than his own . What ails men , that they do not see it ? In greater cases this is evident . A mother runs upon a sword to save her beloved . A father leaps into the fire to fetch out his beloved . Love ...
... beloved's satisfaction more than his own . What ails men , that they do not see it ? In greater cases this is evident . A mother runs upon a sword to save her beloved . A father leaps into the fire to fetch out his beloved . Love ...
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... beloved : I held him and I shall not let him go . * CXXI⭑ GOD said to Margery Kempe in her vision : I act sometimes with my grace to you as I do with the sun . Sometimes , as you know well , the sun shines abroad so that many men may ...
... beloved : I held him and I shall not let him go . * CXXI⭑ GOD said to Margery Kempe in her vision : I act sometimes with my grace to you as I do with the sun . Sometimes , as you know well , the sun shines abroad so that many men may ...
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AELRED OF RIEVAULX anchoress Ancrene Riwle AUTHOR beauty beloved blessed bliss bodily called Christ Church Cloud of Unknowing contemplative creatures death deed delight desire despise devil Dionysius the Areopagite divine love ENGLISH MYSTICS eternal evil eyes Father Augustine Baker FATHER BAKER wrote fear feel fire Geoffrey Parrinder GEORGE FOX gift give God's grace heart hell Henry Miller holy humble humility infinitely inwardly JANE LEADE JULIAN OF NORWICH light live Lord Jesus Margery Kempe Meditations mind mystical experience mystical writers never NORWICH Wrote pain perfect pleasure poet pray prayer pride RICHARD JEFFERIES riches Rievaulx Riwle we read Robert Selected Poems servant sight sins sometimes soul stir suffer sweetness tells temptations thee Thomas Merton THOMAS TRAHERNE wrote thou thought tree trouble true mystic truly virtue vision WALTER HILTON wrote warning weep William MacQuitty WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wisdom wonder worldly business