Category Archives ⇒ Quote of the Day

April 5, 2018
· Martin Kelley

Where­as the young man hereto­fore has been giv­en to be some­thing wild, he of late years was become more somber, it was pro­posed by friends to the young man and woman: 
Whether he did believe yet was the truth which we pro­fessed and walked in accord­ing to our mea­sure — fur­ther shew­ing that if wee did not walk in the truth accord­ing to our mea­sure giv­en us, we were but a com­mu­ni­ty of men and women, and not a Church of Christ. 

— Query for 1689 mar­riage clearness

April 1, 2018
· Martin Kelley

There is a roy­al seed amongst them which in time God will raise. They are more near Truth than many nations; there is a love begot in me towards them which is end­less, but this is my hope con­cern­ing them, that he who hath raised me to love them more than many oth­ers will also raise his seed in them unto which my love is. Nev­er­the­less, though they be called Turks, the seed of them is near unto God, and their kind­ness hath in some mea­sure been shown towards his servants.

— Mary Fish­er

March 31, 2018
· Martin Kelley

Love was the first motion, and then a con­cern arose to spend some time with the Indi­ans, that I might feel and under­stand their life, and the Spir­it they live in, if hap­ly I might receive some instruc­tion from them, or they be in any degree helped for­ward by my fol­low­ing the lead­ings of Truth amongst them.

—John Wool­man

March 30, 2018
· Martin Kelley

And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had noth­ing out­ward­ly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh then, I heard a voice which said, ‘There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy con­di­tion’, and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. 

— George Fox

March 29, 2018
· Martin Kelley

The hum­ble, meek, mer­ci­ful, just, pious, and devout souls are every­where of one reli­gion; and when death has tak­en off the mask they will know one anoth­er, though the divers liv­er­ies they wear here makes them strangers. This world is a form; our bod­ies are forms; and no vis­i­ble acts of devo­tion can be with­out forms. But yet the less form in reli­gion the bet­ter, since God is a Spir­it; for the more men­tal our wor­ship, the more ade­quate to the nature of God; the more silent, the more suit­able to the lan­guage of a Spirit.

—William Penn

March 28, 2018
· Martin Kelley

When we say we are hold­ing some­one in the Light, it is wise to remem­ber that hold­ing is an action verb. Some­times I con­fuse inter­ces­sion prayer with plac­ing a short order to a Spir­it I treat as a per­son­al com­plaint depart­ment. “You didn’t get my order right, God…she’s even sick­er than before!” I love the way Quak­er teach­ings hum­ble me and help me work with love while wait­ing expec­tant­ly for God’s will to be done.

— Bon­nie S.  in a recent comment

March 27, 2018
· Martin Kelley

I do not believe there has ever been any pos­si­ble way of sal­va­tion but that of a birth of divin­i­ty in man.
 — SCOTT

March 26, 2018
· Martin Kelley

Oh! thus keep­ing silence before the Lord and thus draw­ing near to him in a true silent frame of Spirit.
 — WHITEHEAD