Author: guyfinley

Anonymous Saying – “It is an extraordinary fact and an extraordinary piece of evidence for the truth of religion…”

It is an extraordinary fact and an extraordinary piece of evidence for the truth of religion, that a person’s long hours spent in silent communication with God, who never directly answers, is nevertheless manifestly a two-way communication. Such a person is gradually and permanently altered in the depths of his personality in ways which would be inconceivable if there was […]

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One Journey Living Book Quotation

Anchorite Prayer – “Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked…”

Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked And sooty retort Of my own unwilling Skin. In your cruel, Impartial fires Bone and brain All vain desires, Vanity and inward blight Refine. Reform me Free of what obscures your Light. Transparent Make this vessel be So to embrace, Transmit and focus Your life-searing energy That so […]

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Henri Amiel

Henri Amiel Quote – “What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order…”

What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order — material order, intellectual order, moral order. To know where one is going and what one wishes — this is order; to keep one’s word and one’s engagements — again order; to have everything ready under one’s hand to be able to dispose of all one’s forces, and to have […]

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