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Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God's play in His creature.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. The sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
God took a child to fondle him in His bosom of delight; but the mother wept and would not be consoled because her child no longer existed.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
O Death, our masked friend and maker of opportunities, when thou wouldst open the gate, hesitate not to tell us beforehand; for we are not of those who are shaken by its iron jarring.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
O Thou that lovest, strike! If Thou strike me not now, I shall know that Thou lov'st me not.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
I was much plagued by Satan, until I found that it was God who was tempting me; then the anguish of him passed out of my soul for ever.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to fight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man nor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
When I was mounting upon ever higher crests of His joy, I asked myself whether there was no limit to the increase of bliss and almost I grew afraid of God's embraces.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
To thy lover, O Lord, the railing of the world is wild honey and the pelting of stones by the mob is summer rain on the body. For is it not Thou that railest and peltest, and is it not Thou in the stones that strikest and hurtest me?
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)