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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
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