by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 27, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The approach of God to the soul or of the soul to God is not to be thought of in spatial terms at all. There is no idea of physical distance involved in the concept. It is not a matter of miles but of experience.”
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 26, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“It will be a great moment for some of us when we begin to believe that God’s promise of self-revelation is literally true: that He promised much, but promised no more than He intends to fulfill. Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 25, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The Presence and the manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is here when we are wholly unaware of it. He is manifest only when and as we are aware of His Presence. On our part there must be surrender to the Spirit...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 24, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not. Ten million intelligences standing at as many points in space and...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Nov 23, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The truth is that while God dwells in His world, He is separated from it by a gulf forever impassable. However closely He may be identified with the work of His hands they are and must eternally be other than He, and He is and must be antecedent to and independent of...
