If You Have Not Chosen The Kingdom

Now If You Will Stop Here And Ask Yourself Why You Are Not As Pious As The Primitive Christians Were, Your Own Heart Will Tell You That It Is Neither Through Ignorance Nor Inability, But Purely Because You Never Thoroughly Intended It.

The Eyes Of Our Souls Only Then Begin To See When Our Bodily Eyes Are Closing.

This, And This Alone, Is Christianity, A Universal Holiness In Every Part Of Life, A Heavenly Wisdom In All Our Actions, Not Conforming To The Spirit And Temper Of The World But Turning All Worldly Enjoyments Into Means Of Piety And Devotion To God.

What Could Begin To Deny Self, If There Were Not Something In Man Different From Self?

Until We Are Renewed In The Spirit Of Our Mind And Illumined In Every Part, Our Very Virtues Are But Taught Practices Grafted Upon A Corrupt Bottom