Love of the Divine

The true person is grateful and thankful, for the virtuous only know how to be grateful and thankful. It is totally the level of a true person to be grateful and thankful.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

The Master said, "Heaven produced the virtue that is in me. Hwan T'ui—what can he do to me?"

Your business is with action alone; not by any means with fruit. Let not the fruit of action be your motive (to action). Let not your attachment be (fixed) on inaction.

Then do ye remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me, and reject not Faith.

By the adoration of the twenty-four Ginas the soul arrives at purity of faith.

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass.

Why forget Him, who has given us everything? Why forget Him, who is the Life of the living beings? Why forget Him, who preserves us in the fire of the womb?

Balm to mine eyes the dust, my head I bow / Upon thy stair. / Where shall I go, where from thy presence? thou / Art everywhere. …

There is the great Mass (of nature);--I find the support of my body on it; my life is spent in toil on it; my old age seeks ease on it; at death I find rest in it;--what makes my life a good makes my death also a good. …