"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."
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"I am what I wanted and I want what I am."
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"For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity."
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"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
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"A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength."
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"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
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"There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is."
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"God is not good, or else he could do better."
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"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."
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"I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart."
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"Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else."
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"Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter."
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"There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God."
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"No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you."
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"God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each."
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"Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect."
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"Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body."
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"There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created."
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"I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God."
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"The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body."
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