Quietism
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The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religionconsists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests andanxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation ofGod and his attributes.
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the belief that it is best to accept things in life and not try to change them
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(in the Christian faith) devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will as a form of religious mysticism.
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