Messages

  • Tribulation brings us to God

    “We are told that ‘tribulation works patience,’ that is to say, the opposition which trial gives to our desires… forms the meek and lovely temper called patience; and then, as holy scripture proceeds to inform us, patience produces experience; or in other words, a living, abiding knowledge of God, and his way of acting with the soul, and a sweet certainty that he is educating and caring for it, and preparing it for himself; none of which divine truths can be learned but through quietness of mind.”

  • How to realize your natural aptitude for spirituality

    “We have natural aptitudes for the spiritual life, just as we have for walking and talking, but in each case the natural aptitudes and longings can only be fully realized with the caring support of others. That process of encouragement and nurture is the teaching-learning process, education. Our work, as educators, as parents, as humans, is to help nourish the spiritual life in ourselves and in others.”

  • All of life should be an education

    “Be zealous that education shall be continued throughout life. Willingness to be used in mind as well as in body, and to be equipped in both, is a needful part of Christian character. Our service to God is incomplete without the contribution of the intellect….”

  • Quaker Teaching & Learning

    September 2026: Quaker practice encourages us to be lifelong students of truth, from within and from all sources. This month explores what early Friends thought about spiritual and academic education, how Quaker teachers approach their vocation today, and what it means to be a seeker.

  • Why champion the truth?

    “If we want to champion truth, the first step on the road is knowing why we want to do it. We need to commit to it as a way of life. It may start with a particular issue, an injustice, or a cause, or it might be a desire to be closer to God by living in and with the truth and its challenges.”

  • The formula for transcendent worship

    “The first that enters into the place of your meeting…turn in thy mind to the light, and wait upon God singly, as if none were present but the Lord; and here thou art strong. Then the next that comes in, let them in simplicity of heart sit down and turn in to the same light, and wait in the spirit; and so all the rest coming in, in the fear of the Lord, sit down in pure stillness and silence of all flesh, and wait in the light….”

  • What God does through us

    “Believing that God can show us the way, we should maintain a strong faith, one which can affect the consciousness of others. To be able to affect the consciousness of others, we must of necessity be prepared to sacrifice ourselves, making our bodies a part of the effort.”

  • It takes no time, but it occupies all our time

    “Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center…Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is triumphant. It is radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time. And it makes our life programs new and overcoming. We need not get frantic. He is at the helm. And when our little day is done we lie down quietly in peace, for all is well.”

  • Be faithful in your measure of God’s gift

    “My dear hearts, be faithful every one in your particular measure of God’s gift which he hath given you, and on the invisible wait in silence and patience, and in obedience to that which opens to the mystery of God and leads to the invisible God, which no mortal eye can reach unto, or behold.”

  • Stillness is not failure

    “Value just being. [Just being] is active, not passive. Being still is not ‘failing’ to move forward; things are happening in the seeming stillness… valuable things like rest, recovery, happiness; feeding body, heart, mind, or spirit; a period of calm before a time of use of energy; growth; learning; tasting and steeping in the truths and realities.”

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