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TweetThe best that you can seek from Him is that which He seeks from you.
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TweetOne of the signs of delusion is sadness over the loss of obedience coupled with an absence of resolve to bring it back to life.
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TweetThe gnostic is not one who, when making a symbolic allusion, finds God nearer to himself than his symbolic allusion. Rather, the gnostic is the one who, because of his self-extinction in His Being...
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TweetHope goes hand in hand with deeds; otherwise, it is just wishful thinking
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Tweet That which the gnostics seek from God is sincerity in servanthood and performance of the rights of Lordship.
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TweetHe expanded you so as not to keep you in contraction; He contracted you so as not to keep you in expansion; and He took you out of both so that you not belong to anything apart from Him.
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TweetIt is more dreadful for gnostics to be expanded than to be contracted, for only a few can stay within the limits of proper conduct in expansion.
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TweetIt is more dreadful for gnostics to be expanded than to be contracted, for only a few can stay within the limits of proper conduct in expansion.
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TweetThrough the existence of joy the soul gets its share in expansion but there is no share for the soul in contraction
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TweetSometimes He gives while depriving you, and sometimes He deprives you in giving.
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TweetWhen he opens up your understanding of deprivation, deprivation becomes the same as giving.
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TweetOutwardly, creatures are an illusion; but, inwardly, they are an admonition. Thus, the soul looks at the illusory exterior while the heart looks at the admonitory interior.
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TweetIf you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes.
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TweetThe real journey is when the world’s dimensions are rolled away from you so that you see the Hereafter closer to you than yourself.
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TweetA gift from man is deprivation; but deprivation from God is beneficence.
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TweetOur Lord is far above the servant dealing with Him in cash, and His repaying him in credit.
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TweetIt is reward enough for worship that He has accepted you as worthy of it
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TweetReward enough for workers is what He disclosed unto their hearts in His worship, and that which He shows them of His kindliness.
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TweetWhoever worships Him for something they hope from Him, or obeys Him to keep chastisement from coming to themselves, has not given His attributes their due.
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TweetWhen He gives to you He shows you His kindness and when He denies you He is showing you irresistible power. So in both He is disclosing Himself to you, and drawing nigh with His loving kindness...
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