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Perfect contemplatives hear without astonishment all that the learned propound since they excel in a science transcending all understanding.

— John of St. Samson

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My exercise consists in a total elevation of the spite above all created and sense-objects.

Every soul, touched by God, feels and believes in the depths of its being that it is more sinful than all men together.

The more a person strives after God, the more earnest he will become--the les he will converse with men.

"I beg everyone from the highest to the lowest to forgive me; I have given them all much very bad example."

The obedience of those, purified in soul and body in the furnace of humiliation, is of infinite worth to God.

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