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"No one should be judged by another here in this life, for the good and evil they has done. However, deeds may properly be judged whether they are good or bad, but not people."

"You should always be at this work, in intention if not in reality."

"This readiness is nothing else than a strong, deep sorrow of spirit. Everyone has something to sorrow over, but none more than they who know and feel that they [exist]."

"For whoever truly saw themselves as they truly are, would be humble."

"Did she descend to the deeps of her sinful life to search in the filth, brooding over each in turn? Of course not! Because God let her know that she could never bring it about this way. It was more likely that she would begin to sin again if she had done this."

"You are very busy and troubled about many things. But one thing is necessairy."

"So pay great attention to this marvellous work of grace. It is always a sudden impulse springing up to God like some spark from the fire. An incredible number of such impulses arise in one brief hour in the soul! In one such flash the soul may completely forget the created world outside. Yet almost as quickly it may relapse back to thoughts and memories of things done and undone - all because of our fallen nature. "

"All rational beings, angels and men, possess two faculties, the power of knowing and the power of loving. To the first, to the intellect, God who made them is forever unknowable, but to the second, to love, he is completely knowable, and that by every separate individual. This is the everlasting miracle of love. Consider this. To know it for oneself is endless bliss; its contrary is endless pain."

"If you want this intention summed up in a word, take a short word, preferably of one syllable. And fix this word fast to your heart. With this word you will hammer the cloud and the darkness above you. With this word you will suppress all thought under the cloud of forgetting. So much so that if ever you are tempted to think what it is that you are seeking, this one word will be sufficient answer."