by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 24, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 23, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.”
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 22, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of ‘accepting’ Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 21, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Oct 20, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for...