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“By obeying, one learns how to obey.” P154

‘A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.’ P121–“The Slow Descent”

‘Let patience have her perfect work. Statue under the chisel of the sculptor, stand steady to the blows of his mallet. Clay on the wheel, let the fingers of the divine potter model you at their will. Obey the Father’s lightest word: hear the Brother who knows you and died for you.’ “The Art of Being Created” p116

(135)-“A Silly Notion” : ‘No silly notion of playing the hero-what have creatures like us to do with heroism who are not yet barely honest?’

(136)-“Dryness”: ‘The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire.’

“As the world must be redeemed in a few men to begin with, so the soul is redeemed in a few of its thoughts, and works, and ways to begin with: it takes a long time to finish the new creation of this redemption.” P66–so in my words-give grace!!!