Extracts from Writings on: Concerns, Leadings, Testimonies

While this new blog is fragmented and has not cemented its course yet; it's more deeply attached to or queried by Friends leadings than earlier work. This is providence much more than by design.

Tonight as per the usual scene, I was walking with the baby attached; I took Faith and Practice out with us to a public bench; these quotes below, among others began to lead me in new directions on the subjects of international peace efforts and the dispensation of right world resources.

Extracts from Writings on: Concerns, Leadings, Testimonies, Faith and Practice, PYM, p.156

"Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings contrary to universal righteousness are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy and order, clothes itself in the name of justice and becomes like a seed of discord in the soul"
John Woolman, c.1764

"Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last bestowing them to the benefit of others... Both together make an excellent temper. Happy the place wherever that is found." William Penn, 1698

"[Quakerism] made no compromise with the interminable mass of scholastic theology. It cut loose from it all." Rufus Jones, 1906