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If we are to prove that Fox really struck a jet of living water, we ourselves must tap that same fountain.

— Rufus Jones Living in the Light: Some Quaker Pioneers of the 20th Century Vol. I (1984)

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There has always been in the Society of Friends a group of persons pledged unswervingly to the ideal.

Quakers in the American Colonies (1911)

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)

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