“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. And the outward work can never be great or even good if the inward one is puny or of little worth. The inward work invariably includes in itself all expansiveness, all breadth, all length, all depth. Such a work receives and draws its being from nowhere else except from and in the heart of God…
All works are surely dead if anything from the outside compels you to work… If your works are to live, then God must move you from the inside, from the innermost region of the soul – then they will really live.”
Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1328), quoted in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox
Chorlton Unitarians 