• “But the misfortune is that people wish to direct God instead of resigning themselves to be directed by Him. We wish to take the lead, and to follow in a way of their own selection instead of submissively and passively following where God sees fit to conduct them. And hence it is, that many souls who are called to the enjoyment of God himself and mot merely to the gifts of God, spend all their lives in pursuing and in feeding on little consolations.” – Madame Guyon

Joy and Strength 04/15

And I, if I be lifted up from the earthy will draw all men unto Me.
John xii 32.

We know that, when He shall appear, we shall he like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.
I John iii. 2.

For if Christ be born within.
Soon that likeness shall appear
Which the soul had lost through sin,
God’s own image fair and clear.
And the soul serene and bright
Mirror back His heavenly light.
Laurentius Laurenti. 1700.

LORD, never was a magnet so powerful to draw to itself the hard steel, as Thou, the Lord, lifted up on the cross, art powerful to draw unto Thee the hearts of men. O beloved Lord, draw me through joy and sorrow, from all that is in the world to Thee and to Thy cross; form me, and shape me into Thine image here below, that I may enjoy Thee eternally in the glory whither Thou art gone.
Henry Suso.

Think who Christ is, and what Christ is, — and then think what His personal influence must be — quite infinite, boundless, miraculous. So that the very blessedness of heaven will noC be merely the sight of our Lord; it will be the being made holy, and kept holy, by that sight.
Charles Kingsley

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