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Prayer alone can teach us to concentrate again, can lead us to absolute trust in God, and make our minds ready for other essential things . . . for the contemplation (not mere observation) of beauty.

— Caryll Houselander Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

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It is almost as much the duty of a Christian to be loved as to love.

Nothing could be more untrue than the often-repeated statement that we all worship the same God; or that other, that whatever we worship the result is the same.

The one thing she [Mary] did and does is the one thing that we all have to do, namely, to bear Christ into the world.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

The one essential for sanctity is the capacity to love.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

The beginning of human happiness, and even of human sanity, is to begin to know God . . . Goodness draws the human soul as a tide is drawn by light.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

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