The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God's love. But to say that being lifted up into the kingdom of love is a divine gift does not mean that we wait passively until the gift is offered to us.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: devotional-classics
Since I am determined to join myself to God, I find that I am also bound to be the enemy of his enemies. And since I find nothing that is more his enemy than the self that is me, I am constrained to hate this part of me more than any other.
Catherine of GenoaTags: devotional-classics
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTags: inspirational-quotes hard-times charles-spurgeon devotional-classics
To commit myself to do the whole will of God; to be able to invite God to look into my heart and to know that He will find there no opposition to His will, nothing but deep love and a real desire to serve Him--this is what it means to be a sanctified child of God.
A.F. HarperTags: christianity devotional-classics
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