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For although prayer is not the cause for which our Lord gives grace, it is nevertheless the means by which grace, freely given, comes to the soul.

— Walter Hilton The Ladder of Perfection (1494)

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What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.

The Ladder of Perfection (1494)

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

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Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.

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I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.

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We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

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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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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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