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“Christian self denial is only the beginning of a divine fulfillment. It is inseparable from the inward conversion of our whole being fro
Ourselves to God. It is the denial of our unfulfillment,the renunciation of our own poverty, that we may be able to plunge freely into the plentitude and the riches of God and of his creation without looking back upon our own nothingness “

This just floored me. “Everything we love is uncertain: when we are seeking it, we fear we may not get it. When we have obtained it, we fear even more that it may be lost.”

“The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis “