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This is the precept of precepts, says the devout Avila,—seek as you will you can never so surely discover God’s Will as through the channel of humble obedience so universally taught and practised by all the Saints of olden time.
“God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.”
― Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
― Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
“The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ, which is to say, more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed to serving others and making the world a better place.”
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
“Often, after a secret service, Christians were caught and sent to prison. There, Christians wear chains with the gladness with which a bride wears a precious jewel received from her beloved.”
― Tortured for Christ
― Tortured for Christ
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