Quotemeal: Apr. 9th, 1947

Wednesday, April 9, 1947

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."
— John of the Cross

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"Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion."
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— John Climacus —
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
— Ursula LeGuin —
"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to."
— C. S. Lewis —

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Illustration of John of the Cross — "However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

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