"Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter."

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Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.93, Paulist Press

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#Grieving Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.”
“There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.”
“If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.”
“You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.”
“Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.”
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press
“What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.”
“The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.”

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