14 quotes
There has always been in the Society of Friends a group of persons pledged unswervingly to the ideal.
Quakers in the American Colonies (1911)
If we are to prove that Fox really struck a jet of living water, we ourselves must tap that same fountain.
Living in the Light: Some Quaker Pioneers of the 20th Century Vol. I (1984)
We shall not be able to rebuild our shattered world until we recover our faith in eternal realities, and we shall not do that until we discover spirit within ourselves.
Christian Mystics (1999)
No person can ever hope to gain an adequate idea of the religious movement which has been called by the name of Quakerism until he has discovered what is meant by the "Inner Light."
Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)
The time has passed for “the complacent assumption of an unchanged world.”
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
There is very great need to have the unique aspect of spirit in man and its relation to the divine spirit in the universe freshly interpreted in a world that has become bogged down with material conceptions of life and the world.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
There is a dearth of genuine philosophy of life and of a convincing interpretation of spiritual reality.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
It has broken forth where the Spirit listed, and its history is mainly the story of the saintly lives through which it has appeared.
Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)
This Divine Seed is in every person good or bad.
Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)
Persons are set on fire by someone who is already aflame. It is a trumpet call to high adventure that starts the forward movements away from old forms.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
Mysticism has been for the most part sporadic. It has found an exponent now here, now there, but it has shown little tendency toward organizing and it has manifested small desire to propagate itself.
Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)
I want to make perfectly clear the act that the world is in the fringe, in the penumbra, of a tremendous Revolution, with a big R.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
The Christian faith of the ages will be tested more severely than in any former Revolution, because it will be confronted with its supreme enemy, a completely economic, materialistic, and mechanistic interpretation of the word and of human life.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
The point I am trying to make clear is the fact that if we are to see a resurgence of life and power in our beloved Society we must open the way for vital, kindling, inspiring persons to visit, or better still to live in, the communities where there are, or ought to be, meetings.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)