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Thomas Raymond Kelly

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Quaker mystic

Thomas Raymond Kelly, born in Ireland in 1893, was a prominent Quaker mystic. His life was marked by a deep pursuit of spiritual life and reflection on the common values of humanity. Active in the early 20th century in the United States, his thoughts had a profound impact on the Quaker faith.

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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.”

Looks Jesus Sin Wonder Lord Band Lays Saint Joyful Easter Risen Tidings Easter Day

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

Giving Whole Process Amount Beats Flexibility

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

World Children Joy Humility Listening Profound Simplicity Astonishing Shaking Obedient Submissive Completeness

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

May Self Whole Light Turns Secret Wonder Offers Quiet Praise Humble Glad Surrender Chairs Abandon Joyful Ejaculation

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

Heart May Soul Home Voice Destiny Divine Return Holy Calling Eternity Our Time Centre Torn Sanctuary Deep Within Holy Places

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.”

Thinking Way May Song Prayer Levels Behinds Seeing Divine Scene Demand Worship Meetings Affair Breathing Gentle Adoration Discussing Deep Within Behind The Scenes Calculating

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

Soul Religious Wonder Willing Prepared Depth Be Prepared

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“Now is the dwelling place of God himself.”

Faith Dwelling Dwelling Place

Book:The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion

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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.”

Ifs Doe States Moving Found Left Common Behinds Achieve Eternal Worship Fellows Depth Neighbor Isolation Separate Lives

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

Needs Humans Important Soul God Poverty Economic Clothings Shelter Mistaken Deprivation

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“Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.”

Sound Silence Music Listening Quiet Eternal Hearing Noise

Book:The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion

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“Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.”

Theatre Atmosphere Anything Is Possible

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

World Soul Vision Break Pride Mad Humble Rage Dedicated Bows Quaker Mad World

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“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.”

Soul Self Life Is Joy Love Is Burden Our Love Subjective Objectivity True Life Quaker

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

Men Needs Important Clothings Shelter

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

About the Author

Born: 1893
Died: January 17, 1941
Known for: Quaker mystic
Quotes: 15

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