A source of strength far deeper than joy

“Our need is to accept ourselves as a whole, and offer that whole to God, leaving it to God ‘unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid’ to evaluate the good and bad in us. The glorious miracle is that, if we can do this, God can still use us, with all our faults and weaknesses, if we are willing to be used.

The knowledge that I am usable, and sometimes used, is to me a source of love and gratitude and strength far deeper even than joy and happiness.”

— Anna Bidder, 1978
Quaker zoologist and academic

Accept yourself as a whole and offer that whole to God.

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  • Anna McClean Bidder (1903 – 2001) was an English Quaker zoologist and academic. She was co-founder and first president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She was involved in the publication of the 1963 pamphlet Towards a Quaker View of Sex, which aimed to take a new view of the changing sexual mores of the time.

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