Each one of us must seek God alone, Straining towards him b… - Denis the Carthusian

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Each one of us must seek God alone,
Straining towards him both by reason
And by renouncing our own will
For the sake of the longed-for union with God.''

Denis the Carthusian

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(1402–1471), also known as Denys van Leeuwen, Denis Ryckel, Dionysius van Rijkel, Denys le Chartreux (or other combinations of these terms), was a Roman Catholic theologian and mystic.

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Alternative Names: Dionysius Carthusianus • Denys van Leeuwen • Dionysius de Karthuizer • Denys the Carthusian

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Meister Eckhart François Fénelon Teresa of Ávila John Wesley Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

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God, who is the Prince of Wisdom,
Is of himself ever ready
To communicate to all created minds
The overflowing rays of his supernal Wisdom.

Whoever resigns himself in love,
Lives with greater freedom than anyone.
Such a person lives without anxious care,
For God cannot lose what is his own.''

No one, therefore, can love God too much,
But on the contrary,
the more fervently he loves him,
The better and the holier he becomes.

Each one of us must seek God alone, Straining towards him both by reason And by renouncing our own will For the sake of the longed-for union with God… - Denis the Carthusian

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