“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon On the idea of our restoration unto our God: "Let us watch carefully how God has done this, so that ignorance of the ways of God may not rob us of our inheritance. First, it is God Himself who has done it, God, Father, Son, and Holy …
On surrender to the Spirit of Christ, from "The Surrendered Life." "Not that surrender is a meritorious act that wins the fullness of the Spirit, but simply the act needed to give the Spirit a chance to fill us. God does not flood our being with great tides of spiritual life, all independent of our …
"How have we learned Christ? It ought to be a startling thought, that we may have learned him wrong. That must be far worse than not to have learned him at all: his place is occupied by a false Christ, hard to exorcise! The point is, whether we have learned Christ as he taught himself, …
From Oswald Chambers. I do not often quote an entire passage from a person, but this one truly spoke to me. I am passing it on to you in hopes it will continue to speak. This is on obedience to the heavenly vision (see Acts 26:19). If we lose “the heavenly vision” God has given …
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon From Aiden Wilson Tozer, as recorded in the book, "Experiencing the Presence of God." Speaking of our high calling: "Society is in a conspiracy to make us all bad; not too bad, because if we get too bad, we become a problem to the police. But not …
Image via Author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon From Roy Hession's book, "The Calvary Road." This is on the idea of being broken and emptied as was Christ in coming to earth to live, die, and be resurrected among us. "Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but …
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon Truer words would be hard to find. Harder words as well. We would prosper if we take heed to what these men have to say to us individually and together in this post. “Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage …
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon The book, "The Spiritual Guide" by Miguel de Molinos, has been a widely read and popular book since its original publication in 1675, and with a few short years it was translated into nearly every language on the European continent. Despite being banned by the Catholic Church …
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Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon The book, "A Guide to True Peace," was published in its current form in 1815 by two Quakers, William Backhouse and James Janson. Since that time, the book has been an enormous influence in the lives of untold numbers of true seekers of the deeper life. It …
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Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon. Julian of Norwich (1342-1416) is known mostly through her book, The Revelations of Divine Love, which is one of the great classics of the spiritual life. This may be the first book written by a woman in English which has survived. A non-conforming Anchorite, she lived in …
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