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4 quotes · Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, Works of Love, Training in Christianity (1850), trans. Hollander
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Ah, heart-room makes house-room; but where wilt thou find heart-room, if not in his heart?
He abides by his word, or he himself is the word; he is what he says, and also in this sense he is the Word.