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ABIDING fully in Christ is a life of exquisite and overflowing happiness. As Christ gets more complete possession of the soul, it enters into the joy of its Lord.
Andrew Murray • Abide in Christ
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
Though 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
“Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God”
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Pray God that we could forget everything else, and cry out: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
Andrew Murray • Absolute Surrender
For this cause do many things displease thee and often trouble thee, that thou art not yet perfectly dead to thyself nor separated from all earthly things. Nothing so defileth and entangleth the heart of man as impure love towards created things. If thou rejectest outward comfort thou wilt be able to contemplate heavenly things and frequently to be
... See moreThomas Kempis • The Imitation of Christ [with Biographical Introduction]
They rejoice when others are praised; they grieve only because they serve not God like them. They have no desire to speak of the things that they do, because they think so little of them that they are ashamed to speak of them even to their spiritual masters, since they seem to them to be things that merit not being spoken of. They are more anxious
... See moreSt. John of the Cross • Dark Night of the Soul
that the way of glory is discovered through, and only through, the cross.