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The most beautiful prayer we can make, is to say to God, “As Thou knowest and willest, O Lord, so do with me.”
Archive 2009-06-14 Esther 2009
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The most beautiful prayer we can make, is to say to God, “As Thou knowest and willest, O Lord, so do with me.”
Maxims of St. Philip Neri Esther 2009
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“O my lady,” quoth Sharrkan, “she willed to do him what thou willest to do with me, and even that will not satisfy thee.”
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Since thou knowest all this, as soon as the first third533 of the coming night is over, go to the offertory-chest and take thence what thou wishest and willest.
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I am bidden to take it as thou willest and choosest.
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God, and hast no term of this life, neither day ne hour, and willest to have all the world at thy commandment, that shall leave thee without fail, or thou leave it.
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THEREFORE did one believe, “Everything is freedom: thou canst, for thou willest!”
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And when I talked face to face with my wild Wisdom, she said to me angrily: “Thou willest, thou cravest, thou lovest; on that account alone dost thou PRAISE Life!”
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These are Thy servants, my brethren, whom Thou willest to be Thy sons; my masters, whom Thou commandest me to serve, if I would live with Thee, of Thee.
The Confessions 1999
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For altogether, as Thou art, Thou only knowest; Who art unchangeably, and knowest unchangeably, and willest unchangeably.
The Confessions 1999
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