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Quotes from Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis

In the image of Christ, man becomes fully the child of God when he allows God to fill his mouth with praise. Earthly
~ Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis
COMING TO JESUS is the condition for finding relief. All we need to do is choose to enter the sphere of his presence, and the unnatural pressures borne down upon us by both the world and ourselves begin to dissipate. To
~ Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis
When Jesus says, "Take my yoke upon you", he is in fact saying, 'Come and become my spouse.' This
~ Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis
If one searches for Christ—the Truth, the Light, the Beauty—in the world or in heaven "in order to destroy him", not to adore him and love him, but to manipulate and conform him to our desires, it would have been better to have remained at the level of an idiocy that does not search at all.
~ Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis
God desires the sinner to turn away from the darkness of his own nothingness and void and come to himself, to draw life from his life. Sin is grounded in an illusion concerning my own alleged greatness and worth in my own eyes. Repentance is grounded, not in a desire to abase myself, but in a clear understanding and a profound conviction of my great worth in the eyes of God.
~ Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis