“These stuffy old Friends are really talking sense”
“I read that I was supposed to make ‘a place for inward retirement and waiting upon God’ in my daily life, as the Queries in those days expressed it. At last I began to realise, first that I needed some kind of inner peace, and then that these apparently stuffy old Friends were really talking sense.
If I studied what they were trying to tell me, I might possibly find that the ‘place of inward retirement’ was not a place I had to go to, it was there all the time.”
— Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1983
British Quaker author and schoolteacher
Today’s Invitation
Find your “place of inward retirement,” which is there all the time.
This Week’s Query
How do you use silence outside of Quaker worship?
What role does it play in your daily life?
Read the source of today’s quote
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