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DESCRIPTION:KINDLED AND ENFLAMED BY GOD\nFrom “The Eternal Promise” by Quaker Thomas Kelly5\n◊◊◊\nGod your passion? Do you long for Him and rejoice in Him and find life\nmeaningful only to the degree you are in His Presence and He is in your life? Do\nyou keep close to the Divine Center\, the Inner principle counting all else as loss?\nFor a depth of commitment such as mild men do not know\, I speak in order that\nyou may hear Him speak in you the same message. Out of such lives will the world\nbe reborn\, will the church be reborn. Hasten unto God\, all you zealous pearlmerchants! There will you find rest for your souls\, and power\, and peace\, and joy\nunspeakable and full of Glory. \nHasten unto God. I have spoken with deep feeling\, for I am convinced this is\nthe deepest need of all men. We…have become earthy. We are more at home with\nhumans than we are with God. We have men of burning social passion\, but not so\nmany that burn for God\, who long for God\, who go down deep into the Waters of\nHis life\, who call to us\, “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” Social reformers we\nhave now\, men who are great in their contribution to social thinking\, to war\, to\npeace\, to economic injustice\, to racial cooperation. But this epoch of history is\nweak in great prophets of the inner life\, great voices who cry in the wilderness\,\n“Prepare ye the way of the Lord within your hearts.” Skill in social expressions of\nGod is great; skill in communion with Him\, agile obedience to the Inward Glory\, is\nless common today… \nStrip monasticism; strip it of its retreat behind walls from much human\nneed; strip it of its celibacy; and there is left\, in Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis\nof Assisi\, a God-hunger\, and completeness of renunciation of all else in the world\nin comparison with the life that is hid with Christ in God. Such a passion for God as\nleads men… to leave father and mother and all the world… until deep relations\nwith God have been found… Such men and women\, not with social techniques\, but\nwith God-motivations born out of deep immersion in the ocean of the Love of\nGod… Down at the base of life\, for all such people\, would be a fellowship in a\ncommon Life which is the Light within every man who is kindled and enflamed by\nGod. \nDo not misunderstand me. There is a practice of the presence of God which\nis done on the run\, in the busiest of days\, in office\, and schoolroom\, and kitchen.\nLittle prayers and communion; ejaculation of surrender and joy and exaltation…\nAnd most of our lives can be lived this way\, as divine conversation of our soul with\nGod\, going on behind the scenes all the time. But then come crucial periods in life\nwhen the quest for God grows hot\, when the hot breath of the Hound of Heaven is\nat our heels\, when the heart cries out\, “Give me the Presence or I die.” And these\nare the times when we get beneath the conventional mildness of average\nreligiosity\, and find Him more fully\, who is dearer than life itself. From these men\nand women will come the profound return to religion… the love of God and\nneighbor\, which is so desperately needed. \n5 Kelly\, Thomas. The Eternal Promise. New York: Harper & Row\, Publishers\, 1966. 116-118.
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