God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Saint Augustine
light spiritual desire prayers intellectual things god ready give visible
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.. And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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