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2 quotes, most recent first. Quoting does not necessarily imply agreement: think for yourself.
The sense of divine favour increases in me every moment. My pains are tolerable and my joys inestimable. I am no more vexed with earthly cares. I remember when any new book came out, how earnestly I have longed after it -- but now all that is but dust. Thou art my all, O Lord; my good is to approach unto Thee. O what a library I have in God, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge! Thou art the teacher of spirits -- I have learned more in these last ten days than I did in fifty years before.
Reference: Andrew Rivet (1573-1651): a leading Dutch theologian of his time. Recorded by his neice Sat 7 Jan 1651, several hours before his death. Quoted in Archibald Alexander, 'Thoughts on Religious Experience', (1884, republished Oxford: Banner of Truth, 1989)
Without prejudice to individual beliefs, and without offering an opinion as to the exclusive truth of any one religious system or revelation - for here we are concerned neither with controversy nor with apologetics - we are bound to allow as a historical fact that mysticism, so far, has found its best map in Christianity. Christian philosophy, especially that Neoplatonic theology which, taking up and harmonizing all that was best in the spiritual intuitions of Greece, India, and Egypt, was developed by the great doctors of the early and mediaeval Church, supports and elucidates the revelations of the individual mystic as no other system of thought has been able to do.
Reference: Underhill, Evelyn, "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness", (London: Methuen, 1911), 104
