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God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Acknowledge Been Brought Centre Could Everything God Had Knees Knowledge Life Longer Made Me My Life My Own Nothingness Out Own Reborn See Therefore

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I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Back Been Centre Existence God Had Made Me My Own Myself Own Saw Seeking Suddenly Time Turned Who

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I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Being Dark Did Indeed Know Life My Life My Self Point Really Repent Repentance Required Self Surrender Turning Turning Point Very

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It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: About Being Christian Convert Each Each One Faith Going Grow Listen Longer Mutual Mutual Understanding Other Others Question Ready Together Understanding

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I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Alone Father Female Gradually Having Itself Male Marriage Me Mother Over Revealing Sort Taking Think I Think

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The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Again Came Experience Had Inspiration Love Made Me Mother Overwhelming Quite Somehow Sort Suddenly Surrender Then Unexpected Waves

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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Detachment Freedom Makes Men Most Obedience Principle Radical Reason Responsibility Root Self Us

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You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Abandon Also Children Everything Father Give Human Material Mother Must One Thing Only Ready Self The One Thing Thing Unconditionally Up Which Wife You Your

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I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Age Also Am Been Dimension Discovering Feminine Had Itself Life Long Long Time Me Means Now Opening Really Seeking Sexual Sort Time Up Very Very Long Time Which Whole I Am

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: December 17th, 1906

Died: May 13th, 1993

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