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“He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.”

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Gerhard Tersteegen
Gerhard Tersteegen

German writer, poet, and philosopher. Gerhard Tersteegen is renowned for his profound religious thoughts and poetic works, which have had a significant impact on German literature and religious philosophy. more

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