As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?
The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
Everything has being through the love of God.
Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.
Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: 'Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well'.
God is nearer to us than our own spirit
...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Prayer unites the soul to God.
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