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To be simple we must desire to remain in the image of God. We must not be so complex that we make God into our image!

— Catherine Doherty

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Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces everyone of us at one time or another.

Poustinia (1975)

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.

Poustinia (1975)

Faith sees God's face in every human face.

Poustinia (1975)

Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

Poustinia (1975)

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

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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.

Basil of Caesarea

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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