It was, we trust, a profitable season; but the reflection arose on this occasion, as it has done on some others when among serious persons not of our profession, that if they would but suffer the degree of divine influence mercifully afforded thoroughly to baptize the heart with the true baptism, much Creaturely activity would be done away, and the light of the gospel would shine in them and through them in much greater purity.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
And then thou canst not any otherwise keep thyself but by abiding continually with that resigned humility, and by entering into a constant course of penitence, wherein thou wilt always be grieved at thine own Creaturely Will, and that creatures do still live in thee, that is, in thy bodily appetite.
"Dialogues on the Supersensual Life"
Jacob Behmen
Recognition of this his true Creaturely status, with its obligations-the only process of pain and struggle needed if the demands of generous love are ever to be fulfilled in him and his many-levelled nature is to be purified and harmonized and develop all its powers-this is Repentance.
"The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day"
Evelyn Underhill