I read a portion of Thomas Kelly's The Eternal Promise while on the subway today.

There's one portion that really resonated with my soul. Here it is:

"What direction shall we run, if we would run away to God? I can only answer, He is within you already. Seek Him in the very deeps of your souls. But you say, "I thought we were to seek Him in the Bible." I should reply, He is not in the Bible, as such. For the Bible, as such, is a book, and words; and what you want is not a book but a living God; not words, but the Word, the Living Word. It is not the words of a book, but the Living Word who animated and owned those writers who wrote the Bible, that we crave. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." The book points beyond itself, to Him who has been found by its writers. And because He is already in the deeps of your own souls, these words of the Bible are made living and vivid to you. Read your Bibles, and feel your way back into that Source and Spring of Life which bubbled up in the Bible-writers. And you'll find that Source and Spring of Life bubbling up within you also. And you'll find yourself in deep fellowship with these writers, because your life and theirs go back into the same Living Spring."

Quakers are awesome!