As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.