Monthly Archives: September 2021

“They said, we corrupted each other, and that they thought when we were parted, we would have bowed to them. But they found we were more stronger afterwards than we were before; the Lord our God did fit us for every condition.” – Katherine Evans, who w… Continue reading →

“From each, Love demands a mystic silence.” – Attar, Intoxicated by the Wine of Love (via theinwardlight) Continue reading →

“A person in the night kindles a light for herself, since her vision has been extinguished.” – Heraclitus, fr. 26 (via theinwardlight) Continue reading →

thruaglass:“So worship without words has as potent a power to shape the individual, to give expression to the deepest feelings, as any other kind. It also has an advantage which is necessarily surrendered when Christians offer worship in the words and … Continue reading →

“The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people’s hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.” – George Fox, in his Journal (1694) Continue reading →

alexandria1448:“It was based on the principle that individuals must make up their own minds about how they lived: it had no doctrine, no book of rules, no priests, and in its marriage ceremony there was no promise of obedience.”From An Intimate History… Continue reading →