Of God himself no man can think. He may well be loved, but not thought.
By love he may be grasped and held; by thought never.
Although it is good at times to think especially of the kindness and goodness of God, and although this may enlighten you and play a part in contemplation, nevertheless in this work such thoughts shall be put down and covered with a cloud of forgetting.
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