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• The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.
• Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something…
• A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of…
• If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are…
• A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
• Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
• Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.
• Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.
• If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.
• Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful'…
• The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our…
• ... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the…

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