"The 'whole' comprises and embraces all beings. Without and outside this whole, there is no true being. All things have their being in the whole, for it is the essence of all things." Julius Pfeiffer, 'Theologia deutsch'
Mystics after Modernism - Rudolf Steiner
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THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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"You can never love your neighbour without loving God." Jacques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704), French philosopher and bishop
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"There is no corner of God's universe over which his love has not brooded." Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872), English theologian and writer
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"Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated." George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist, poet and pastor
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"Wisdom is the treasure. And this treasure was hidden in the field of the human heart when man was created in the image and likeness of his Maker." Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141), German monk and writer
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"The whole world ought to be regarded as the visible part of a universal and continuing sacrament, and all man's activities as a sacramental, divine communion." Dumitru Staniloae, Romanian Orthodox theologian
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"Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation." Anthony deMello, Indian Jesuit
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"Do not be afraid of death which leads to certain life." Mother of Symphorian, early 1st century, to her martyred son
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"We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us." Thomas Merton, American Cistercian monk and writer
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"All the harmonies of creation find their resonance in man." Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), Russian theologian
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"Every creature is by its nature a kind of effigy and likeness of the eternal Wisdom." Bonaventure (1221-1274), Italian Franciscan theologian
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"The spiritual exercise of the radiation of love is perhaps the most important prayer of transformatrion which anyone can make." F. C. Happold, contemporary English teacher and writer
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"A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love." Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Italian mystic
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"God takes to himself our good endeavours, so that he may repay us with his good things." Irenaeus (130-202ad), Bishop of Lyons
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"He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbour." Bede (ca. 673-735), English monk
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"Let us run towards the goal which from the beginning has been handed down to us, the goal which is peace; and let us fix our gaze on the Creator of the whole universe, and cling to his splendid and superlative gifts of peace." Clement of Rome (d.c.95), bishop of Rome
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and theologian
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"If God can be found in all things, then there is nothing at all that can happen to us that we need fear." Margaret Hebblethwaite, theologian and spiritual writer
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"Love and justice march together…You cannot have one without the other." Stanley Booth-Clibborn, contemporary English Anglican bishop
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"To have a prayerful approach to people is to have eyes to see, a mind intent upon seeing, a heart hopeful of seeing the image of God in each person I meet, to see them in themselves and in God." Douglas Rhymes, contemporary English priest and author
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"Faith is something infused into us, not produced by us." Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), English Catholic writer
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"The love which we bear for others remains the mark of the authenticity of our contemplation." Roger of Taize, Co-founder and Prior of the Taize community
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"God discloses him- or herself to all people in all cultures at all times, because all human beings are capable of having an apprehension of God." Richard Harries, English Anglican bishop of Oxford
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"Love works in us and for us." John Cassian (360-435), monk and writer
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"The world is made up of all kinds of good things, and gives sufficient indication of the great good in store for the one for whom all this was provided." Tertullian (c.150-212), North African church father
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"The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life." Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist
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