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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.

— Caryll Houselander

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

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)

To surrender all that we are, as we are, to the spirit of love in order that our lives may bear Christ into the world – that is what we shall be asked.

Eleven Modern Mystics (2011)

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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.

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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