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id: 43611
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
title: The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
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  Those two chapters tell of men and women who railed upon their parents, remembering that their god was older than the god of their parents; and that which has the sword of Michael for an emblem commends the kings that wrought secret murder and so won for their people a peace that was _amore somnoque gravata et vestibus versicoloribus_, heavy with love and sleep and many-coloured raiment; and that with the pale star at the closing has the lives of the noble youths who loved the wives of others and were transformed into memories, which have transformed many poorer hearts into sweet flames; and that with the winged head is the history of the robbers who lived upon the sea or in the desert, lives which it compares to the twittering of the string of a bow, _nervi stridentis instar_; and those two last, that are fire and gold, are devoted to the satirists who bore false witness against their neighbours and yet illustrated eternal wrath, and to those that have coveted more than other men the house of God, and all things that are His, which no man has seen and handled, except in madness and in dreams. Why do you fly from our torches that were made out of sweet wood, after it had perished from the world and come to us who made it of old times with our breath?'


id: 5657
author: Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
title: The Practice of the Presence of God
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flesch: 81
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  The following year, in a second publication which he titled, 'The Practice of the Presence of God', de Beaufort included, as introductory material, the content of four conversations he had with Brother Lawrence. In this small book, through letters and conversations, Brother Lawrence simply and beautifully explains how to continually walk with God - not from the head but from the heart.


id: 13871
author: Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
title: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
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sentence: 461
flesch: 75
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  and I have endeavored to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me, whether I be lost or saved, I will always continue to act purely for the love of_ GOD. He told me that the _foundation of the spiritual life_ in _him_, had been a high notion and esteem of GOD in faith; which when he had once well conceived, he had no other care at first, but faithfully to reject every other thought, _that he might perform all his actions for the love of_ GOD.


id: 10395
author: Van Dyke, Henry
title: Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
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flesch: 79
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  But in doing this we must put the emphasis of our preaching to-day where it belongs, where Christ puts it, on the doctrines that are most important to human life and happiness. It is nothing new,--the meaning of this threefold message,--but it is the best that I have learned in life.


id: 33701
author: Valuy, Benôit
title: Fraternal Charity
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words: 12004
sentence: 508
flesch: 66
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  With great charity and affability they bear with the faults and shortcomings of others, careful to fulfil the law of Christ, which tells us to bear one another's burdens. With the exception of extraordinary cases, or when it refers to a bad habit or something otherwise irremediable, there is generally little charity and less prudence in telling the Superior-General of something blameable which has occurred.


id: 36402
title: On Union with God
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words: 13646
sentence: 606
flesch: 74
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summary:
  This is, in truth, the end of all thy labours, that thou mayest draw nigh unto God and repose in Him within thy soul, solely by thy understanding and by a fervent love, free from entanglement or earthly image. Let nothing remain which could come between thy soul and God, that so thou mayest be able to pass surely and directly from the wounds of the Sacred Humanity to the brightness of the Divinity.


id: 21981
author: Adler, Felix
title: The Essentials of Spirituality
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words: 17615
sentence: 657
flesch: 64
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  At least, to keep within the bounds of the artistic simile, the members of the Hebrew people were regarded as first-proof copies, and other men as somewhat dim and less perfect duplicates. Shall we say that such men are the outcome of their heredity, their education, their environment?


id: 50916
author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
title: Evening Incense
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words: 19292
sentence: 1206
flesch: 81
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summary:
  May I spend each day as if possibly it were my last, so that should the midnight cry break upon my ears, Prepare to meet Thy God, it might be to me no unexpected summons, but as an angel whispering, The Master is come and calleth for thee. Thou art ever giving me impressive remembrances that at such an hour as I think not, the summons may come, Prepare to meet Thy God.


id: 36162
author: McClure, James G. K. (James Gore King)
title: Living for the Best
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words: 30161
sentence: 1521
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Yes, though they pay no heed to mere servants and prophets, and though some unappreciative men slay even the Son, other men, the great multitude of men, when they realize that the Son is God's best possession, and realize that in His gift of Christ God exhausts the treasury of His heart, will reverence His Son. Best men are molded out of faults.


id: 35811
author: Mechthild, of Magdeburg
title: Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg
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sentence: 1469
flesch: 78
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  Thus the revelation of the love of God, which was to the soul the opening of heaven, the entrance into the Father's house where was the feast of joy, the music, and the dancing, was to lead to a walk of faithfulness here below, which would bring upon the witness of God persecution and shame and reproach. Thou beloved Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Eternal God, one with the Eternal Father, think upon me.


id: 2500
author: Hesse, Hermann
title: Siddhartha
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words: 39778
sentence: 1813
flesch: 82
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  Since young Siddhartha was in the hut, the old men had split the work. For a long time, he stood there, looked at the monks, saw young Siddhartha in their place, saw young Kamala walking among the high trees.


id: 18355
author: Ammyeetis
title: Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
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words: 39283
sentence: 1501
flesch: 63
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  In the everlasting rounds of human life, no new souls are being created and sent here to work out their salvation through their experiences incident to the life of this young planet, earth. Everywhere along the way, Nature trails her loose ends, well baited, with which to catch the unwary, and the whitening bones of the lonely emigrant family lost on the plains, and the snowy hair of the dead mountaineer bleaching on high summits or woven in the nests of birds, or the bodies of dead mariners, or the lonely corpse of the treacherously slain, pulsing with the tide on foreign shores, or the miners in their pits, forced by the deadly damps from all visible connection with human life, or the child of a superior race held captive by savages, or the beautiful white girl sold into the harem of a barbarous sultan, or any or all other of such expressions of destiny in the isolated lives of men are but pioneering the way of the race to complete homogeneousness and unquestioned ownership of the whole wide earth.


id: 14026
author: Swedenborg, Emanuel
title: Spiritual Life and the Word of God
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sentence: 1353
flesch: 65
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  True marriage love is a source of power and protection against the hells, as it is against the evils and falsities that ascend from the hells, and for the reason that through marriage love man has conjunction with the Lord, and the Lord alone has power over all the hells; also because through marriage love man has heaven and the church; consequently as the Lord unceasingly protects heaven and the church from the evils and falsities that rise up from the hells, so He protects all who are in true marriage love, because such and no others have heaven and the church. And this is why through marriage love man has peace, which is inmost joy of heart from a complete safety from the hells and a protection from infestations of the evil and falsity therefrom.


id: 47747
author: Percival, G. H.
title: The Incarnate Purpose: Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life
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sentence: 4075
flesch: 68
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  _ Translation edited by Maurice A. Canney, M.A. _See_ Crown Theological Library, p. 13. =Constellations=, Primitive, _Brown_, 56. =Creed=, _Christian_, 16. =Crown Theological Library=, 10. =Cuneiform= Inscriptions, _Schrader_, 9. =Daniel= and his Prophecies, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. and its Critics, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. =Danish= Dictionary, _Rosing_, 43.


id: 60377
author: Thomas, à Kempis
title: The Following of Christ, in Four Books Translated from the Original Latin of Thomas a Kempis
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sentence: 3566
flesch: 82
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  Some are preserved from great temptations, and are often overcome in daily little ones: that being humbled, they may never presume of themselves in great things, who are weak in such small occurrences. We blame little things in others, and pass over great things in ourselves.


id: 15964
author: Benson, Arthur Christopher
title: The Child of the Dawn
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sentence: 2973
flesch: 78
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  Were those grievous things still growing, seeding, flowering in other lives left behind? We must advance from what is merely brilliant to what is true; and though in the single life many a man seems to halt at a certain point, to have tied up his little packet of admirations once and for all, there are other lives where he will pass on to further loves, his passion growing more intense and pure.


id: 23820
author: Whiting, Lilian
title: The Life Radiant
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sentence: 3121
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Within, beyond, the world of ether,--as a still profounder, still more generalized aspect of the Cosmos,--must lie, as I believe, the world of spiritual life. That the world of spiritual life does not depend upon the existence of the material world I hold as now proved by actual evidence.


id: 11304
author: Moore, George
title: The Lake
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sentence: 3468
flesch: 79
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  Father Oliver knew that the time for speaking of her was passing by, but he could not bring himself to speak, and instead he tried to persuade Father O'Grady to stay to dinner, but he could not be persuaded; and they walked to and fro, talking about their different parishes, Father O'Grady asking Father Oliver questions about his school and his church. But there was an impulse in the gentle day, and, turning from the sandy spit, Father Oliver walked to and fro along the disused cart-track about the edge of the wood, asking himself if he were going home, knowing very well that he could not bring himself to interview his parishioners that morning.


id: 15082
author: Underhill, Evelyn
title: The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day
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flesch: 59
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  But the extent in which we find and feel it is the measure of the fullness of spiritual life that we enjoy. Yet we have been given the secret, the law of spiritual life; and psychologists would agree that it represents too the most favourable of conditions for a full psychic life, the state in which we have access to all our sources of power.


