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Page 196 - Oh how true did he speak who said that all things work together for the good of them that love God ! To the soul that loveth God, its body availeth in its infirmity, availeth in its death, availeth in its resurrection ; first for the fruit of penitence, second for repose, third for consummation. And rightly doth the soul not will to be made perfect without that which it feeleth hath in every state served it in good things.
Page 197 - And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men ; but God knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God.
Page 195 - Brother, the quality of love stilleth our will, and maketh us long only for what we have, and giveth us no other thirst.
Page 190 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 271 - The scheme of that book carried out would make the world the most wretched, useless, dreary, doting place of sojourn — there would be no manhood, no love, no tender ties of mother and child, no use of intellect, no trade or science, a set of selfish beings crawling about avoiding one another and howling a perpetual miserere.
Page 189 - LORD, we pray thee, that thy grace may always prevent and follow us ; and make us continually to be given to all good works, through Jesus Christ our Lord, A men.
Page 225 - Certainly when the Day of Judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done ; not how well we have spoken, but how religiously we have lived. Tell me, where are now all those Doctors and Masters with whom you were well acquainted whilst they were alive, and flourished in their pursuits?
Page 226 - We ought to read plain and devout books as willingly as high and profound Let not the authority of the writer offend thee, whether he be of great or small learning ; but let the love of pure truth draw thee to read.* Search not who spoke this or that, but mark what is spoken.
Page 74 - ... the light of the sun. And this Light is nothing else than a fathomless staring and seeing. What we are, that we behold; and what we behold, that we are: for our thought, our life, and our being are uplifted in simplicity, and made one with the Truth which is God. And therefore in this simple staring we are one life and one spirit with God...
Page 273 - Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.