"Each one of us must seek God alone, Straining towards him both by reason And by renouncing our own will For the sake of the longed-for union with God."
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Denis the Carthusian, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, trans. Ide M. Ni Riain (Dublin: The Columba Press, 2013), 110.
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Denis the Carthusian
1402 – 1471
(1402–1471), also known as Denys van Leeuwen, Denis Ryckel, Dionysius van Rijkel, Denys le Chartreux (or other combinations of these terms), was a Roman Catholic theologian and mystic.
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