Sebat ve Savaş: Ruhun İçindeki Gömülü İnci

I confess, indeed, that without prayer neither small nor great things can come to growth within us, and certainly it is very difficult when the senses are scattered; but what is the advice? To want to stand still and wait for a convenient time is even more harmful than to work in weakness and to persevere according to the small capacity that one feels, whether it be at the right or the wrong time. We will gather our strengths together and see what God can do, and let Christ be the third man; I know that what we both cannot achieve, He will surely carry through. Indeed, the noble pearl of contemplation and the knowledge of God lies buried deep in our inner ground of the soul; however, it is quite possible to reach and find it, if only we do not grow weary and cease to dig, that is, that we constantly hunger and thirst for it with desire: A tree eventually grows from a sprout. When I was a child and young in the rebirth, I imagined I had more wisdom and strength than I do now, because at that time I knew nothing of conflict and temptations; but the older I have become, the weaker I have felt myself to be, so that it may be the power of God; for the conflict has grown from time to time and far beyond my strengths.