"Therefore take heed of the fleshly wisdom; take heed of thine own understanding; take heed of thy reasoning or disputing; for these are the weapons wherewith the witness is slain. That wisdom must be destroyed, and that understanding brought to naught, and thou become a child, and learn as a child if ever thou know the things of God."
Isaac Penington, 1617-1679, early convert to Friends, in The Inward Journey of Isaac Penington (Robert Leach, 1943), p. 6.
Comment: did you ever read something and have that eerie feeling the writer is speaking directly to you? One reason I love old Quaker writings are because I often feel a close kinship, as if they’re the mentors too often lacking in my real life.
