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<blockquote data-quote="Lawrence87" data-source="post: 1545349" data-attributes="member: 23052"><p>"Do not search for exalted experiences in prayer---they are not proper to a sinner. Even the desire of a sinner to feel exalted is already delusion. Seek instead the resurrection of your dead, petrified heart, that it may become open to the knowledge of its own sinfulness and depth of its fall and its insignificance, to see it and to admit it with self-denial. Then you will find within yourself the true fruit of prayer---sincere repentance."</p><p></p><p>Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lawrence87, post: 1545349, member: 23052"] "Do not search for exalted experiences in prayer---they are not proper to a sinner. Even the desire of a sinner to feel exalted is already delusion. Seek instead the resurrection of your dead, petrified heart, that it may become open to the knowledge of its own sinfulness and depth of its fall and its insignificance, to see it and to admit it with self-denial. Then you will find within yourself the true fruit of prayer---sincere repentance." Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov [/QUOTE]
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