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What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.