Pious thoughts concerning the knowledge and love of God and other holy exercises, by the late archbishop of Cambray. Together with A letter of Christian instruction, by a lady. Done out of French |
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Página 20 - ... all; I see only thee; all other things are but as shadows before the eyes of him who has once seen thee; and the world does not see thee! But alas! he who has not seen thee, has seen nothing; he has passed his life in the illusion of a dream; he is as if he were not — more unhappy still, for as I learn from thy word it had been better for him that he had not been born. Oh God! when shall we return love for love? When shall we seek him who ever seeks us, and whose arms are ever around us ? It...
Página 22 - Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? "—" What wilt thou have me to give?"—then will he be able, with joyous emotions, to adopt the words of the great
Página 36 - All that exists, exists only by the communication of God's infinite being. All that has intelligence, has it only by derivation from His sovereign reason, and all that acts, acts only from the impulse of His supreme activity. It is He who does all in all ; it is He who, at each instant of our life, is the beating of our heart, the movement of our limbs, the light of our eyes, the intelligence of our spirit, the soul of our soul.
Página 2 - God, who 1 is all, who does all, and to whom all is due. He is infinite in all, in wisdom, in power, in love. We should not be astonished, therefore, if all that comes from him, possesses this character of infinite and surpasses human reason. When he prepares and arranges aught, his counsels and his ways are, as the scripture says, as far above our counsels and ways as...
Página 120 - of unbelief, in departing from the living God. " But exhort one another daily, while it is called to " day; left any of you be hardened through the de
Página 42 - Prayer confifts nof in the Multitude of the Words which we pronounce ; for without having any need of our Words, God is thoroughly acquainted with our Thoughts. The true Petition then is that of the Heart, and the Heart petitions not but by its Defires.
Página 13 - ... than it. O incomprehensible power of my Creator! O rights of the Creator over the creature which the creature will never sufficiently comprehend! O prodigy of love which God alone could perform! God interposes himself as it were, between me and myself; He separates me from myself; He desires to be nearer to me by his pure love than I am to myself. He would have me look upon this "me...
Página 8 - Let the world be," and it was. Thou did'st only speak and it was done. But why did'st Thou create all these things? They were all made for man and man was made for Thee. This is the order which is of thine appointment, and woe to him who inverts it, who would that all should be for him and shuts himself in self! He breaks the fundamental law of the creation. No! Lord, Thou canst not yield the e-ssential prerogatives of a creator; it wruld degrade Thee.
Página 66 - They make too little account of the internal Teacher, which is the Holy Spirit, and which does all in us. He is the Soul of our Soul : We cou'd not form a good Thought or Defire but by him.
Página 67 - We must retire from all outward objects, and silence all the desires and wandering imaginations of the mind; that in this profound silence of the whole soul, we may hearken to the ineffable voice of the Divine Teacher.