A Testament of Devotion: Five Quaker Essays on Finding Inner Peace Through God's Presence and Simplification - Softcover

Kelly, Thomas R.

 
9780060643614: A Testament of Devotion: Five Quaker Essays on Finding Inner Peace Through God's Presence and Simplification
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060643617 ISBN 13: 9780060643614
Verlag: HarperOne, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures.

I have in mind something deeper than the simplification of our external programs, our absurdly crowded calendars of appointments through which so many pantingly and frantically gasp. These do become simplified in holy obedience, and the poise and peace we have been missing can really be found. But there is a deeper, an internal simplification of the whole of one's personality, stilled, tranquil, in childlike trust listening ever to Eternity's whisper, walking with a smile into the dark."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941) was a Quaker missionary, educator, speaker, writer, and scholar.

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Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures.

I have in mind something deeper than the simplification of our external programs, our absurdly crowded calendars of appointments through which so many pantingly and frantically gasp. These do become simplified in holy obedience, and the poise and peace we have been missing can really be found. But there is a deeper, an internal simplification of the whole of one's personality, stilled, tranquil, in childlike trust listening ever to Eternity's whisper, walking with a smile into the dark."

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Verlag
HarperOne
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0060643617
ISBN 13 
9780060643614
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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