Hans Dienstknecht
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Your sense
Samuel E. Surazal
Your sense for beauty and light corresponds to the natural warmth of your heart. In the powerlessness of your mind before the tender force of life you sense…
If you greet every person
Samuel E. Surazal
If you greet every person you meet with “Peace be with you” in your heart, you will change the world. * * *
You cannot redeem yourself.
Samuel E. Surazal
You cannot redeem yourself. You can only allow yourself to be prepared to receive the grace from God. This preparation is the highest activity of surrender. * *…
In the light of grace
Samuel E. Surazal
In the light of grace that God gives you, grasp the light of grace and not the darkness that now becomes visible to you. * * *
The price
Samuel E. Surazal
The price for the ticket into heaven you pay with the semblance of your life. * * *
When God gave His thoughts freedom,
Samuel E. Surazal
When God gave His thoughts freedom, He knew the diversity of the possibilities of that freedom. He also knew the one outcome of all possibilities. There was no…
The goal of creation
Samuel E. Surazal
The goal of creation is not creation itself. It is the means to a higher end. In its necessary outward form it serves as the lawful path toward…
Every human being has two lives.
Samuel E. Surazal
Every human being has two lives. One as a path through the ages over millions upon millions of years, framed in words of time and space, subject to…
To keep hurting someone
Samuel E. Surazal
To keep hurting someone and then again and again demand love from that person is a cruel game. God allows it to be done to Him. In this…
Pain humbles the soul
Samuel E. Surazal
Pain humbles the soul cruelly and seemingly without mercy. The love of God penetrates the soul tenderly with humility. Yet in the heart of humility the soul recognizes…
To speak words of wisdom
Samuel E. Surazal
To speak words of wisdom is no merit of the human being, but of wisdom itself. To speak words of love is not to possess love, but means…
Love and joy
Samuel E. Surazal
Love and joy are inseparably joined. True love and true joy are the two rails of the track on which the train of bliss travels toward heaven. *…