Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.Johannes Tauler
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.
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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
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