If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Interpretation
Understanding and connecting with the divine can provide deeper insights than human teachings.
This quote emphasizes the importance of spiritual awareness and attentiveness to divine guidance. It suggests that by fostering a relationship with God and being open to His voice, one can gain profound wisdom and understanding in a short time, surpassing what might be taught by humans over many years.
In practice
A religious leader might use this quote to encourage followers to seek personal revelations.
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.
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