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“As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.”
― Mircea Eliade

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
― Sojourner Truth

“God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.”
― Jean-Pierre de Caussade

“The benefit of obedience: the soul frees itself for things interior when it's exterior life is taken over by someone else, as in military service, the monastery, the family.”
― Alexander Elchaninov

“I have worked with women religious for more than twenty-five years. Shortly after the publication of Leadership and the New Science, a colleague gave me great advice. He said that if I was interested in organizations that worked from a strong sense of values, then I should be working with the military and nuns.”
― Margaret Wheatley