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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Apr 16, 1999 3:44 am
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I don't look for great heights in my prayer life, but I do look for and experience connectedness with God. Elise Boulding "One Small Plot of Heaven" ... ...
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May 6, 1999 7:37 am
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Only by our suffering can we overcome prejudices bred in millions of people by the inability of Christians to speak to their times. -- Emil Fuchs (1949) ... ...
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May 9, 1999 1:58 pm
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To know and love God directly is to come to know what we are. DS - Prayer and Worship ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/group/quaker-thought ...
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May 16, 1999 8:27 pm
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A true mystic believes that all men have, as he himself is couscous of having, an inward life, into which as into a secret chamber, he can retreat at will. ...
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May 19, 1999 1:10 pm
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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentalities for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a...
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May 19, 1999 1:11 pm
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But as important as contemplation may be to work, the reverse is equally true. Steere ... eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/quaker-thought ...
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May 21, 1999 10:41 pm
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A world has happened since yesterday and has left its traces on each body and mind. Elise Boulding - One Small Plot of Heaven ... eGroups.com home:...
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May 29, 1999 8:16 pm
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Nurturing the processes of peace... It takes the skills of arbitration, mediation, and conflict resolution in the context of the practice of community, of...
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Jun 1, 1999 1:25 am
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Silence is also a component of creative thought. A certain part of the brain must be put to rest so that intuition can speak to us with its own language which...
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Jun 6, 1999 6:55 pm
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I would like to suggest a word to replace enemy. The word is "stranger". It is a very old word, and a good one. Elise Boulding admin. note: Many of the...
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Jun 16, 1999 4:22 pm
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Well -- the Temptations. Marks; account makes it plain, if we didn't know it already, that the two experiences, acceptance and temptation, are really halves...
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Jun 17, 1999 4:13 pm
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In the first place, in every social movement there are varied trends or emphases, and methods of working. Those who hold to one approach are likely to be very...
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Jun 22, 1999 6:59 pm
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I.2 Is there a living silence in which you feel drawn together by the power of God in your midst ? frm Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Queries (c. 1947) ... ...
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Jun 30, 1999 4:11 pm
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The light is God present within, leading each of us in our own way, thus engendering individual strength and identify. But the Light is also the Creator...
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Jul 2, 1999 4:33 pm
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Hi, You may wish to circulate the following quote: Prayer is not an occasional nod Given in passing to God. It is more like marriage - a closeness in living, ...
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Jul 3, 1999 8:39 pm
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Worship is the adoring response of heart and mind to the influence of the Spirit of God. Brinton...
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Jul 30, 1999 4:18 pm
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Only by love is one given the power to penetrate to the heart of the matter, to enter, to become, another person. Hatred destroys; love creates. Jessamyn West...
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Aug 3, 1999 5:19 pm
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Words are the greatest handicap to communication. Richard L. Walker - Vistas from Inner Stillness -1991...
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Aug 6, 1999 6:46 pm
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In a meeting for worship one is given, now and again, by the Holy Spirt or the indwelling Christ, a ministry in the form of a message to impart to the gathered...
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Aug 21, 1999 1:20 am
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Solitude builds up, affords a conscious setting in which significant growth in the life of the Spirt can take place. Solitude is a gift of time without...
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Aug 25, 1999 12:19 am
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"Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as you would if you knew you die tomorrow." - Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee ...
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