...scripture nowhere says we have to close our eyes when we pray. Douglas Steere. Prayer and Worship ... Subscribe, unsubscribe, opt for a daily digest, or...
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Nov 3, 1998 7:31 pm
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To know and to love God directly is to come to know what we are.
Douglas Steere "Prayer and Worship" p 13...
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Nov 5, 1998 10:18 pm
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God never asks of men what is impossible. Douglas Steere Prayer and Worship ... Free Web-based e-mail groups -- http://www.eGroups.com...
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Nov 7, 1998 12:59 am
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The first condition of private prayer is to recognize that solitude is the stronghold of the strong, and to provide for its place in life. Douglas Steere,...
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Nov 8, 1998 12:27 am
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The thing which had the most to do, however, with my deliverance from fear was my childlike discovery that God was with me and that I belonged to him. Rufus...
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Nov 22, 1998 4:32 pm
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There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to avenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things in hope to enjoy its own in the end....
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Nov 26, 1998 1:48 pm
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And this is that for which my labor is, and for which my desire often times with deep Sighings and Breathings to the Lord is, that you may be kept and...
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Dec 10, 1998 6:44 pm
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Speaking out of the silence is a curious hybrid activity which does not quite fit any of the usual categories of preaching, teaching, or testifying in church....
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Dec 28, 1998 1:45 pm
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Dec 28, 1998 1:45 pm
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Another feature of Quakerism which comes from its Reformation origins is a suspicion of, or hostility towards, the outward expression of religion in ritual,...
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Jan 4, 1999 10:36 pm
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...the distinction between silence and stillness. Silence is simply a preparation for being still, the means of worship, not the worship itself. John Punshon,...
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Jan 5, 1999 3:15 pm
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I do not know why supposedly religious people are embarrassed at the thought of being born again, I was, except that Quakerism, the faith of my adoption,...
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Jan 5, 1999 6:23 pm
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Moreover when the Lord sent me forth into the world, he forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low; and I was required to 'thee' and 'thou' all men and...
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Jan 16, 1999 3:29 pm
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I saw at this time that if I was honest in declaring that which truth opened in me, I could not please all men; and I labored to be content in the way of my...
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Jan 18, 1999 4:17 pm
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It is not Christianity but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) ... eGroup home:...
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Jan 19, 1999 5:23 pm
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"We have been so long pinning our faith on other peoples' sleeves that we ought to begin examining these things daily, ourselves, to see whether they are so;...
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Jan 22, 1999 3:37 am
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I have been challenged by Friends who worship with a pastor, hymns, and planned service to consider that it may be "unprogrammed" Friends who are most dogmatic...
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Jan 24, 1999 4:31 pm
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Now it is called light, especially by us of this society who profess to be Christians. This is the foundation which George Fox came out upon - he directed...
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Feb 6, 1999 9:33 pm
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A religion is spiritual if every outward word and act is a genuine expression of an inward state. Howard Brinton ... eGroup home:...
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Feb 9, 1999 4:01 am
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The differences of sentiment whic exist in the church...have respect, not to the question whether the Holy Spirt does or does not operate on the heart of man,...
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Feb 15, 1999 3:57 am
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No longer are they to depend on the teaching of their fellow-creatures; for the anointing which they have received of Christ abides in them, and teaches them...
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Feb 15, 1999 2:45 pm
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I felt that everywhere teh emphasis on garb and speech and Quaker badges of plainness was excessive. It seemed to me a bondage and a burden, a load and a...
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Feb 16, 1999 12:45 am
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And with an even mind, they can at all times measure the uneven world. They can rest fixed in the midst of all its uncertainties, as becomes those who have an...
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Mar 1, 1999 7:43 pm
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Prayer for others is a form of petitional prayer that makes deep demands on the faith of an individualistic generation that has so largely lost its sense of...
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Mar 2, 1999 4:39 pm
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Pacifism is not a theory; it is a way of life. It is something you are and do... Rufus Jones ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/quaker-thought Free...
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Mar 8, 1999 3:27 pm
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Saints are not made for haloes and inward thrills. The true saint is a good mother, a good neighbor, a good constructive force in society, a fragrance and a...
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Mar 17, 1999 5:46 pm
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In hours of loss and sorrow, when the spurious props fail us, we are more apt to find our way back to the real refuge. Rufus Jones ... eGroup home:...
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Mar 22, 1999 2:57 pm
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If times of inward retirement were so essential to Jesus, who perpetually lived and moved in God's presence, how much more important they should be to us,...
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Apr 10, 1999 6:37 pm
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While Quakers like to think of themselves as nonconformist, there is a special kind of Quaker conformity hinted at in the previous paragraph. There is an...
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Apr 15, 1999 2:57 pm
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The lion will never lay down with the lamb on a "lets pretend" basis, and perhaps too much of what we do as Quakers is "lets pretend". Elise Boulding ... ...
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