"Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity."
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"Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility."
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"Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep."
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"In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty."
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"Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage."
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"The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God."
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"It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus."
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"Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence."
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"I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love."
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"Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing."
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"Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it."
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"In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all."
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"People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply."
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"I desire only Him and to be wholly His."
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"The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you"
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"Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God."
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"Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world."
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"To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?"
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"Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise."
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"That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues."
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