Notes
Notes
Chapter 1
1. John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1972), p. 118.
2. Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), p. 37.
3. Heini Arnold, Freedom from Sinful Thoughts: Christ Alone Breaks the Curse (Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House, 1973), p. 94.
4. Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount (New York: Harper & Row, 1938), p. 88.
5. Arnold, p. 82.
6. Frank S. Mead, ed., Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (London: Peter Davis, 1965), p. 400.
Chapter 2
1. Morton T. Kelsey, The Other Side of Silence: A Guide to Christian Meditation (New York: Paulist Press, 1976), p. 83.
2. Madame Guyon, Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ (Goleta, CA: Christian Books, 1975), p. 3.
3. Timothy Ware, ed., The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology (London: Faber & Faber, 1966), p. 110.
4. Jeremy Taylor, The House of Understanding: Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor, ed. Margaret Gest (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1954), p. 106.
5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Way to Freedom (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 57.
6. Guyon, p. 32.
7. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1955), p. 85.
8. Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), p. 59.
9. Morton Kelsey in The Other Side of Silence makes an excellent analysis of Eastern and Christian meditation. See especially pp. 1, 57, 98, and 121.
10. Thomas Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1960), p. 68.
11. Merton, Contemplative Prayer, p. 39.
12. William Penn, No Cross, No Crown, ed. Ronald Selleck (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1981), p. xii.
13. Merton, Contemplative Prayer, p. 29.
14. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961), p. 20.
15. Elizabeth O’Connor, Search for Silence (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1971), p. 95.
16. Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation, p. 98.
17. Ibid., p. 47.
18. Alexander Whyte, Lord, Teach Us to Pray (New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.), p. 249.
19. As quoted in Lynn J. Radcliffe, Making Prayer Real (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1952), p. 214.
20. St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. John K. Ryan (New York: Doubleday, 1955), p. 84.
21. Merton, Contemplative Prayer, p. 59.
22. Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation, p. 75.
23. Bonhoeffer, p. 59.
24. Whyte, pp. 249–50.
25. Ibid., p. 251.
26. Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism (New York: Dutton, 1943), p. 90.
27. Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation, pp. 88–89.
Chapter 3
1. E. M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), p. 23.
2. Ibid., p. 38.
3. Ibid., pp. 38, 77.
4. Ibid., pp. 41, 54.
5. Ibid., p. 13.
6. Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), p. 11.
7. Søren Kierkegaard, Christian Discourses, trans. Walter Lowie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940), p. 324.
8. Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart, trans. C. de B. Evans, Vol. 1 (London: John M. Watkins, 1956), p. 59.
9. As quoted in Lynn J. Radcliffe, Making Prayer Real (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1952), p. 214.
10. Frank C. Laubach, Prayer the Mightiest Force in the World (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1946), p. 31.
11. Frank C. Laubach, Learning the Vocabulary of God (Nashville: Upper Room, 1956), p. 33.
12. Bounds, p. 83.
13. Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), p. 124.
14. Ibid., p. 35.
15. Bounds, p. 35.
Chapter 4
1. John Wesley, The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley (London: Epworth Press, 1938), p. 147.
2. David R. Smith, Fasting: A Neglected Discipline (Fort Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade, 1969), p. 6.
3. Arthur Wallis, God’s Chosen Fast (Fort Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade, 1971), p. 25.
4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Macmillan, 1959), p. 47.
5. E. M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), p. 25.
6. John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions (London: Epworth Press, 1971), p. 301.
7. Smith, p. 39.
8. Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), p. 35.
9. Wallis, p. 66.
10. Elizabeth O’Connor, Search for Silence (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1971), pp. 103, 104.
11. Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions, p. 297.
Chapter 5
1. Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters (New York: Schocken Books, 1948), p. 111.
2. André Gide, If It Dies, trans. Dorothy Bussey (New York: Random House, 1935), p. 83.
3. Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism (New York: World, Meridian Books, 1955), pp. 93–94.
4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Great Books, 1952), p. 167.
5. Charles Noel Douglas, ed., Forty Thousand Quotations (Garden City, NY: Halcyon House, 1940), p. 1680.
Chapter 6
1. Richard E. Byrd, Alone (New York: Putnam, 1938), p. 19.
2. Arthur G. Gish, Beyond the Rat Race (New Canaan, CT: Keats, 1973), p. 21.
3. Ibid., p. 20.
4. Søren Kierkegaard, Christian Discourses, trans. Walter Lowie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940), p. 322.
5. Ibid., p. 27.
6. John Wesley, The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley (London: Epworth Press, 1938), Nov. 1767.
7. Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1977), p. 18.
8. Kierkegaard, p. 344.
9. John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1972), pp. 144–145.
10. Ibid., p. 168.
11. George Fox, Works, Vol. 8 (Philadelphia, 1831), p. 126, Epistle 131.
Chapter 7
1. Elizabeth O’Connor, Search for Silence (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1971), p. 132.
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Row, 1952), pp. 77, 78.
3. Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1974), p. 23.
4. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (New York: Pyramid, 1967), p. 18.
5. John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1972), p. 11.
6. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 79.
7. Doherty, p. 212.
8. St. John of the Cross, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), p. 296.
9. Ibid., p. 363.
10. Ibid., p. 295.
11. Ibid., p. 364.
12. Ibid., p. 365.
13. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 80.
14. Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953), p. 261.
15. Doherty, p. 216.
Chapter 8
1. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, in an anthology entitled The Consolation of Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1943), p. 139.
2. Hymns for Worship (Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1963), p. 248.
3. John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1972), pp. 181–82. (I am indebted to Yoder for several of the ideas that follow.)
4. Ibid., p. 181.
5. Ibid., p. 186.
6. Kempis, p. 172.
Chapter 9
1. Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), p. 124.
2. St. Francis of Assisi, Selections from the Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (Nashville: Upper Room Press, 1952), p. 25.
3. John Milton, The Complete Works of John Milton (New York: Crown, 1936), p. 614.
4. C. H. Dodd, quoted in William Barclay, The Letters of John and Jude (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), pp. 68, 69.
5. William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (Nashville: Upper Room Press, 1952), p. 26.
6. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, in an anthology entitled The Consolation of Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1943), p. 211.
7. Brother Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria, The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), pp. 58–60.
8. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Macmillan, 1963), p. 188.
9. Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living in Fellowship of the Saints: An Anthology of Christian Devotional Literature (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1957), p. 353.
10. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Row, 1952), p. 99.
11. François Fénelon, Christian Perfection (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1975), p. 34.
12. Ibid., p. 36.
13. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Bernard on the Song of Songs (London: Mowbray, 1952), p. 70.
14. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 97.
15. Ibid., p. 98.
Chapter 10
1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Row, 1952), p. 112.
2. Ibid., p. 118.
3. Agnes Sanford, The Healing Gifts of the Spirit (New York: Holman, 1966), p. 110.
4. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 116.
5. St. Alphonsus Liguori, “A Good Confession,” in an anthology entitled To Any Christian (London: Burns & Oates, 1964), p. 192.
6. Douglas Steere, On Beginning from Within (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943), p. 80.
7. Liguori, p. 193.
8. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959), p. 23.
9. E. M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer (Chicago: Moody Press, n.d.), p. 77.
10. Liguori, p. 195.
11. Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 118. (The phrase “living under the cross” is Bonhoeffer’s.)
12. Sanford, p. 117.
Chapter 11
1. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961), p. 11.
2. Ibid., p. 21.
3. Frank C. Laubach, Learning the Vocabulary of God (Nashville: Upper Room, 1956), pp. 22–23.
4. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Nashville: Upper Room, 1950), p. 32.
5. Douglas Steere, Prayer and Worship (New York: Edward W. Hazen Foundation, 1942), p. 36.
6.Thomas R. Kelly, The Eternal Promise (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 72.
7. Ibid., p. 74.
8. George Fox, Epistle 288 (1672), quoted in Quaker Religious Thought 15 (Winter 1973–74): 23.
9. François Fénelon, Christian Perfection (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1975), p. 4.
10. Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), p. 42.
11. As quoted in D. Elton Trueblood, The People Called Quakers (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 91.
12. James Nayler, A Collection of Syndry Books, Epistles, and Papers, Written by James Nayler, etc. (London, 1716), p. 378.
13. Willard Sperry, “Reality in Worship,” in The Fellowship of Saints: An Anthology of Christian Devotional Literature, ed. Thomas S. Kepler (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1963), p. 685.
Chapter 12
1. Brother Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria, The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), pp. 74–78.
2. Rufus M. Jones, The Quakers in the American Colonies (New York: Norton, 1921), p. 517.
3. John G. Whittier, ed., The Journal of John Woolman (London: Headley Brothers, 1900), p. 13.
4. Thomas Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1960), p. 12.
5. Ibid., p. 8.
6. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment, trans. Kitty Muggeridge (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982).
7. Dave and Neta Jackson, Living Together in a World Falling Apart (Carol Stream, IL.: Creation House, 1974), p. 101.
8. Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation, p. 9.
9. George Fox, The Journal of George Fox (London: Headley Brothers, 1975), p. 184.
10. Dallas Willard, “Studies in the Book of Apostolic Acts: Journey into the Spiritual Unknown” (unpublished study guide available only from the author).
Chapter 13
1. Harvey Cox, The Feast of Fools (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), p. 12.
2. François Fénelon, Christian Perfection (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1975), p. 102.
3. D. Elton Trueblood, The Humor of Christ (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 33.
4. Cox, p. 11.
5. Ibid., p. 10.
6. Ibid., p. 3.