My greatest outward help

“To sit down in silence could at the least pledge me to nothing; it might open to me (as it did that morning) the very gate of heaven. And, since that day, now more than 17 years ago, Friends’ meetings have indeed been to me the greatest of outward helps to a fuller entrance into the spirit from which they have sprung.”

— Caroline Stephen, 1890 
Quaker philanthropist and author

In silent contemplation, seek entrance into “heavenly portals.”

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  • Caroline Emelia Stephen (8 December 1834 – 7 April 1909), also known as Milly Stephen, was a British philanthropist and Quaker writer. Her niece was Virginia Woolf.

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