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The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, — the very fashion of which "passeth away."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Here it is that the Spirit teaches us all truth; for all truth is eminently contained in this sacrifice of love, where the soul strips itself of every thing to present it to God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God works in a mysterious way in grace as well as in nature, concealing His operations under an imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps us always in the darkness of faith.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in the arms of the All-Powerful.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God, and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)