“I have been traveling among Friends and writing for Friends for 40 years. I have done workshops and retreats, taught academic classes and short courses, written articles, books, and pamphlets. But preparing the material for this week may have been one of the hardest things I have produced for Friends.”
“Do you have the wisdom and the heart to repent of all the things that might obstruct your service? Do you have the heart to forgive even the unforgivable? Do you have what it takes to love the unloveable, to walk and talk with those you think are your enemies? Will you be able to see everyone as belonging to the community of God and not otherwise?”
“Oh! love truth and its Testimony, whether its Witness be to you, or against you, love it, that into my Mother’s house you all may come, and into the Chamber of her that conceived me, where you may embrace, and be embraced of my dearly beloved one, Love is his Name, Love is his Nature, Love is his life.”
“Dwell low in your minds, as it is only in the valley of humiliation that we can have fellowship with the Oppressed Seed.”
“Small Treasure to a resigned Mind is sufficient. How happy is it to be content with a little, to live in Humility.”
“Of course, we are still human, still flawed, and if our meetings are to be beloved communities we must learn to accept others as they are, not as we want them to be—to accept the opportunity to bear one another’s burdens…. We are reminded that forgiveness is not about justice; it is about healing.”
“Hope can arise from places undreamed of. Hope is the intersection of the dreams of ordinary people and the promise of something new that permeates our tradition. Hope can carry a person through fear, past the very real dangers of this world, in ways I don’t pretend to understand.”
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