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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Aug 31, 1999 2:11 pm
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test message to reactivate the group....
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Jan 12, 2000 5:18 am
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I found no narrowness respecting sects and opinions, but believed that sincere, upright hearted people in every Society who truly loved God were accepted of...
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Jan 14, 2000 3:39 pm
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All the great religious teachers say with one voice that to meet the living truth, we must let it come to us and speak to us where we are. Mary...
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Jan 16, 2000 5:12 pm
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"If we bring our full, fresh attention in the kind of open response that we would have available for the person we most want to talk to - a letter of vital...
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Jan 17, 2000 4:21 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...
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Jan 18, 2000 8:21 pm
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We should begin the reformation of society in that area where our most immediate responsibility lies, that is, in ourselves, and work from there outward as the...
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Jan 19, 2000 3:14 pm
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Human nature seems naturally to think that power sits up high and is able to accomplish things, rather than standing low and being able to endure things. Mary...
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Jan 20, 2000 4:07 am
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"To withdraw from the human press and struggle and seek only the selfish thrill of individual salvation is the way of spiritual danger." Rufus Jones, 1936...
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Jan 23, 2000 1:28 pm
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Parables, like jokes, not only amuse us; they also jolt us. Mary Morrison "...Approaching the Gospels", Pendle Hill Pamphlet #219...
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Jan 25, 2000 3:45 pm
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Quaker worship stresses a revolutionary discovery; the sacred always lies within each one of us and so can infuse the profane continually. Our religious...
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Feb 3, 2000 12:35 pm
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"It is of no importance to me how many voyages I compete about the sun, for the thrill of travel is the critique, preparing for the next trip, and then...
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Feb 5, 2000 4:19 pm
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"The sensations, ideas, and motivating forces within us that we call consciousness are the same as those which order the universal spheres in their orbits....
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Feb 16, 2000 9:26 pm
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"There is a gap between each thought we have. That gap, that interval of time and space, is our inner stillness...It is in that brief interval we find our...
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Feb 17, 2000 1:25 pm
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Activities of Friends on behalf of others have usually ben motivated by a desire for clearness of conscience. A social condition becomes a matter of concern....
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Feb 20, 2000 2:02 pm
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Without attentiveness in both our private and public worship there can be only a confirmation of the African proverb that says, " When God speaks, He does not...
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Feb 23, 2000 1:19 pm
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When we are trying to grasp Jesus' thought, we would sometimes do well to leave out the concept of time entirely and look for the timeless pattern that...
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Feb 27, 2000 6:32 pm
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“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all...
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Mar 6, 2000 5:33 pm
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From sixty-five to ninety-five is thirty years, as great a distance as there is between twenty and fifty. But they call us all old. Elizabeth Gray Vining, A...
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Mar 7, 2000 1:56 pm
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The one corner-stone of belief upon which the Society of Friends is built is th conviction that God does indeed communicate with each one th sprits he has...
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Mar 9, 2000 4:30 pm
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"The Bible is not the dictator of our conduct and faith. It is rather the record of persons who exemplified faith and virtue. It does for religion that which...
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Mar 23, 2000 3:00 pm
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John 15:5 "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."...
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Mar 24, 2000 4:44 pm
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"Decision making is, first of all, a search for clearness..." Paul A. Lacey - Education and the Inward Teacher, PH #278 1988...
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Mar 30, 2000 2:48 pm
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When another speaks of God as She. I must take that witness seriously; I may not correct my companion's experience by substituting my favorite pronouns for...
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Apr 9, 2000 4:56 pm
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Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."...
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1 John 3:2-3 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him;...