From the very start, everything that is good in a person is silent, and just as it is essentially God's nature to live in secret, so also the good in a person lives in secret. Every resolution that is fundamentally good is silent, because it has God as its confidant and went to him in private; every holy feeling that is fundamentally good is silent and concealed by a modesty that is holier than a woman's: every pure sympathy for the human that is fundamentally good is silent, because it is hidden in God: every emotion of the heart is silent, since the lips are sealed and only the heart expanded. How dismal if people forget that when everything becomes silent, when no one mentions or relates what is occurring within, when silence grows around a person, that he then can be with God in secret!
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