How We Should Speak to God

“I came to realise that the best way to deepen my love of God was to use my experience of the love in my everyday life in all its variety, subtlety and uncertainty. Getting on with those I love is often a business demanding patience, discretion, tact and understanding. It gets complicated sometimes. It also gets strained, occasionally to the breaking point. But without expression it is barren. I show my love in the things I do, and I also show it by words of endearment. These things are all part and parcel of one another. This is what worship should be like. This is the idiom in which we should speak to God.”

— John Punshon, 1987 (source)
Quaker minister and historian

Show your love with actions and words, in the spirit of worship.

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  • John Punshon

    John Punshon (1935-2017) was a Quaker historian. He was recorded for public ministry in Indiana Yearly Meeting, and served as the Quaker Tutor at Woodbrooke in Selley Oak, England from 1979-1990 and as the first Geraldine Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion from 1991-2001.

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