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Believing in God means believing in an incomprehensible being whose ability to listen is known. That is what kneeling means.

— Jean Guitton

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Unlike Calvino, you bring the soul into the designs of merciful predestination without any element of anguish.

Generals do not fight with the fear of the troops, they prefer to keep them busy.

In the spiritual life, to grow means to simplify and simplify oneself, to become closer to uncreated and ineffable simplicity.

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

For Teresa, the way of Mary is a way of faith, without ecstasy, without miracles, even without words.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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