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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"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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May 3, 2000 1:05 pm
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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;...
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May 5, 2000 1:03 pm
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"...we may boldly say, both Papists and Protestants have greatly gone aside: On the other hand, some are so great pretenders to inward motions and revelations...
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May 27, 2000 5:24 pm
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"..a Methodist tells of wiring his bishop for permission to bury a Baptist and receiving the reply, "Permission granted. Bury as many Baptist as possible."...
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Jun 25, 2000 1:07 pm
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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do Matthew 6:7 (partial)...
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Jul 21, 2000 8:31 pm
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But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 1 John 1:7...
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Jul 24, 2000 3:16 pm
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"The "peculiar mission" of a Friends school is to educate for goodness, not by requiring its members to live certain truths, but by enabling them to live their...
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Jul 30, 2000 11:18 am
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"It is often, in phrases commonly used by early Friends, to be broken, melted down, ploughed up in preparation for the Seed. To answer "that of God" or "the...
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Jul 30, 2000 11:25 am
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There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide people into two kinds … and those who don’t. Elias Hicks - Advices...
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"Realty exists somewhere between the shadows and the reflections of one's thoughts." Richard L. Walker...
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Aug 13, 2000 4:11 pm
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ L. Mott, 1849...
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Aug 23, 2000 2:39 am
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"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,...
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Sep 26, 2000 11:13 am
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"Therefore all wait patiently upon the Lord, whatsoever condition you be in; wait in the grace and truth, that comes by Jesus: for if you do so, there is a...
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Sep 26, 2000 7:08 pm
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Selection from a hymn sung at Children's Meeting in the early part of the 20th century -- Like a little candle We must shine You in your small corner and I in...
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Oct 1, 2000 12:01 pm
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"There is certainly a cumulative power where many persons together are fused and expectant. It amounts to team work. Each "lends his soul out" to help the...
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Oct 15, 2000 11:55 am
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2 John 1:2 'For the truths sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.'...