Quaker Quotes to Memorize (with guest editor Max L. Carter)
Jan 19-25, 2026: This week’s messages are guest edited by Max L. Carter. He is a member of New Garden Friends Meeting in Greensboro, N.C. He retired in 2015 after 45 years in Quaker education, the last 25 at Guilford College as the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies.
January 19, 2026
A foundational experience of Quaker spirituality
“And when all my hopes in them, and in all people was gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, Then, O! 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.”
January 20, 2026
The immediacy of the Divine
“There is that near you which will guide you. O! Hearken unto it, and be sure ye keep to it.”
