Thomas Raymond Kelly Quotes

• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Home, Heart, Destiny

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• In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath all. Worship does not consist in achieving a mental state of concentrated isolation from one’s fellows. But in depth of common worship it is as if we found our separate lives were all one life, within whom we live and move and have our being.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Moving, Depth, Doe

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• Hay una manera de ordenar nuestra vida mental en más de un nivel a la vez. En un nivel podemos estar pensando, discutiendo, viendo, calculando, satisfaciendo todas las demandas de los asuntos externos, pero en el fondo, entre bastidores, a un nivel más profundo, también podemos estar en oración y adoración, cantando y adorando, y en una suave receptividad a los alientos divinos.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Song, Prayer, Thinking

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• The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of the soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

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  God, Soul, Important

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• The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.

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  Children, Humility, Profound

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• Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

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  Humble, Light, Self

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• For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Religious, Soul, Depth

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• Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Music, Silence, Listening

  Thomas Raymond Kelly (1987). “The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion”

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• Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy is our joy, whose Peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose Will is our will. Self is emptied into God, and God in-fills it.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Love Is, Self, Objectivity

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• Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Faith, Dwelling Place, Dwelling

  Thomas Raymond Kelly (1987). “The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion”

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• Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Pride, Mad

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• Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Atmosphere, Theatre, Anything Is Possible

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• The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

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  Men, Important, Needs

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• We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

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  Giving, Beats, Process

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• Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Jesus, Easter, Saint

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