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Andy Brown • 1 card
GOD’S UNAVOIDABLE PRESENCE What can you ever really know of other people’s souls—of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense alone with Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Theologians, Mystics and other wonderous things
Clark Haaland • 5 cards
“The relationship to God is this secret of divine oneness—lover and Beloved are one—there is no other. And this intimacy is always alive, even if hidden deep within the heart, as the Sufi mystic Rumi exclaims:
It is he who suffers his absence in me
Who through me cries out to himself.
Love's most strange, most holy mystery
We are intimate beyond belief
... See moreThough we don’t realize it at the time, when habitual senses of God do disappear in the process of the dark night, it is surely because it is time for us to relinquish our attachment to them. We have made an idol our images and feelings of God, giving them more importance than the true God they represent.
Gerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
ST. TERESA OF AVILA (d. 1582),
Joan Carroll Cruz • Mysteries, Marvels and Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints
Lewis reminds us that God wants to knock out the walls of the temples we build for Him because He desires to give us more of Himself. Lewis wrote, more than once, that he wanted God, not his idea of God.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
For when the mind is brought to stillness, and all our strategies of acquisition have dropped, a deeper truth presents itself: we are and have always been one with God and we are all one in God (Jn 17:21).
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
anagogical.