"For This I Have Laid Down My Life", p. 12
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)
“True simplicity regards God alone; it has its eye fixed upon Him, and is not drawn toward self; and it is as pleased to say humble as great things. All our uneasy feelings and reflections arise from self-love, whatever appearance of piety they may assume. The lack of simplicity inflicts many wounds. Go where we will, if we remain in ourselves, we shall carry everywhere our sins and our distresses. If we would live in peace, we must lose sight of self, and rest in the infinite and unchangeable God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 544.
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