That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
Florence NightingaleThe craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
Florence NightingaleMysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
Florence NightingaleLife is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
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