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John of Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, edited by Evelyn Underhill (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916), The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Second Book, ch. XIII, "Of Gratitude," p. 65

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To praise God, means that all his life long a man glorifies, reverences and venerates the Divine Omnipotence. The praise of God is the meet and proper work of the angels and the saints in heaven, and of loving men on ear…

John of Ruysbroeck · John of Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, edited by Evelyn Underhill (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916), The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Second Book, ch. XIII, "Of Gratitude," p. 65
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