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“It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more firmly, the finished righteousness of Christ. And what is the school in which he learns his nothingness, his poverty, his utter destitution? The school of deep and sanctified affliction. In no other school is it learned, and under no other teacher but God. Here his high thoughts are brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.”

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Author:Octavius Winslow

“God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.”

May Soul Helping Desire Religious Poverty Support Source Resources Encouragement Misery Chosen Fearful Sole Nothingness

Book:Abandonment to Divine Providence

Source: Abandonment to Divine Providence

“Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.”

Poverty Rich Nothingness

Book:Collected Poems: 1930–1973

Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1973

“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”

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Author:Thomas Merton