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View every part of our redemption, from Adam's first sin to the resurrection of the dead, and you will find nothing but successive mysteries of that first love which created angels and men.
William Law: The Spirit of Prayer.
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When the house of sensuality is at rest, that is, when the passions are mortified and concupiscence quenched, the soul begins to set out on the way of the spirit, the way of those who progress and of proficients, which is also called the illuminative way.
St. John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul.
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The qualities of the devil and all fallen angels are good qualities; they are the very same which they received from their infinitely perfect Creator, the very same which are and must be in all heavenly angels; but they are an hellish, abominable malignity in them now, because they have, by their own self-motion, separated them from the light and love which should have kept them glorious angels.
William Law: An Appeal.
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Man's last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God. St. Paul left God for God: he left everything he could give or take of God, every concept of God. In leaving these he left God for God since God remained to him in his essential self; not as a concept of himself, nor yet as an acquired thing, but God in his essential actuality. This is no case of give and take between himself and God: It is the one and perfect union.
Eckhart: Sermons and Collations.
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What is that which shines though me, and strikes upon my heart without hurting it? And I shudder and kindle: shudder, in as much I am unlike it; kindle, in as much as I am like it. It is Wisdom, Wisdom's self which thus shines into me; even breaking through my cloudiness: which yet again overshadows me fainting from it, under the fog and heavy load of mine own punishment.
St. Augustine: Confessions.
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Then also thou shalt so rest in us, as thou now workest in us: and so shall that rest be thine, through us; even as these works are thine though us. But thou, O Lord, dost work always, and rest always too.
St. Augustine: Confessions.
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What Tophet is not Paradise, what brimstone is not amber, what gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally, from the sight of God?
John Donne: Sermons.
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