Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941) was a Quaker missionary, educator, speaker, writer, and scholar.
Testament of Devotion
Paperback
(Reprint)
- ISBN-13: 9780060643614
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date: 02/12/2010
- Edition description: Reprint
- Pages: 144
- Sales rank: 113,040
- Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.37(h) x 0.36(d)
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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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