“I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.” ProcessEventsQuietMental HealthCirclesPinsTransforming Author:Rufus Jones
“There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.” WayLosesFinding YourselfLosing YourselfQuaker Author:Rufus Jones
“Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.” HumansHeartHandsLightEvilDarknessHappenedWorshipAreasIdealsAnd LoveSensitiveDedicatedStillnessShockedSkirtsQuakerHuman HandsOrdinationLight And Love Author:Rufus Jones
“There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.” PeopleFaithBurnedBurned OutGreat Future Author:Rufus Jones
“Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.” PeopleBodyNationsIntelligentThug Author:Rufus Jones
“In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.” FightingForceNationsCasesEconomicClaimsHandleSettlingUnjust Author:Rufus Jones
“Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.” MenWorldWarTogetherForceMovementUnityObligationTiesPeculiarFellowshipQuakerForward Movement Author:Rufus Jones
“If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.” IfsMaySoulEndsNightDarkPiecesJourneyBrokenAdversityShipsSustainingDark NightDark Night Of The SoulBroken Pieces Author:Rufus Jones
