If I spend money for one thing, I cannot spend it on something else. No man can love two women with his whole heart. no one can serve God and mammon. No one can attain an ecstatic joy in God without giving up paltry, self-centered pleasures in things less than God.
Buddhist “contemplation” is impersonal, not a love matter at all, whereas that represented by Theresa (of Avilia) and John (of the Cross) is preeminently a profound personal love union with God.
If people today or in any age lack mystical prayer, it is not because it has been tried and found lacking. It is the Gospel that has not been tried.
3 quotes uit de inleiding van het boek “Fire Within”. Nu op bladzijde 49 en heel erg enthousiast. En mocht je vraagtekens hebben bij het bovenstaande gedeelte, lees Johannes 17.
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Jesse op 30 Jan 2009 om 2:01 pm
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