God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

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

Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

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