Stuart Masters
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Teacher and writer on Quaker and Christian history, theology and spirituality. Author of 'The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth' (T&T Clark, 2025), and 'The Rule of Christ: Themes in the Theology of James Nayler’ (Brill, 2021).
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Holy Spirit, the life that gives life: You are the cause of all movement. You are the breath of all creatures. You are the salve that purifies our souls. You are the ointment that heals our wounds. You are the fire that warms our hearts. You are the light that guides our feet.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Holy Spirit, the life that gives life: You are the cause of all movement. You are the breath of all creatures. You are the salve that purifies our souls. You are the ointment that heals our wounds. You are the fire that warms our hearts. You are the light that guides our feet.
Friends have always practiced an experiential and Spirit-led faith based on continuing revelation, making them suspicious of the traditions of the Church. But since the seventeenth century, all Quakers have inherited a pre-existing tradition of their own.
The Quaker Faith, p.151.
The Quaker Faith, p.151.
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Friends have always practiced an experiential and Spirit-led faith based on continuing revelation, making them suspicious of the traditions of the Church. But since the seventeenth century, all Quakers have inherited a pre-existing tradition of their own.
The Quaker Faith, p.151.
The Quaker Faith, p.151.
Bring into God’s light those emotions, attitudes and prejudices in yourself which lie at the root of destructive conflict, acknowledging your need for forgiveness and grace. In what ways are you involved in the work of reconciliation between individuals, groups and nations?
Avices & Queries 31, BYM
Avices & Queries 31, BYM
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Bring into God’s light those emotions, attitudes and prejudices in yourself which lie at the root of destructive conflict, acknowledging your need for forgiveness and grace. In what ways are you involved in the work of reconciliation between individuals, groups and nations?
Avices & Queries 31, BYM
Avices & Queries 31, BYM
When you think there's no hope left. Remember the lobsters in the tank at the Titanic's restaurant.
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
When you think there's no hope left. Remember the lobsters in the tank at the Titanic's restaurant.
When we are truly aware of life's preciousness, expressing gratitude becomes heart-felt and Spirit-led. When we express gratitude to people, we affirm that we care about them and appreciate the divine within them. For me, this kind of gratitude is the heart of real community.
Anthony Manousos
Anthony Manousos
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
When we are truly aware of life's preciousness, expressing gratitude becomes heart-felt and Spirit-led. When we express gratitude to people, we affirm that we care about them and appreciate the divine within them. For me, this kind of gratitude is the heart of real community.
Anthony Manousos
Anthony Manousos
Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.
Clare of Assisi
Clare of Assisi
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.
Clare of Assisi
Clare of Assisi
“The sense of being inwardly guided prompts people to become “patterns and examples.” Being patterns means that their lives take the visible shape of the Spirit of love and truth.”
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.141.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.141.
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“The sense of being inwardly guided prompts people to become “patterns and examples.” Being patterns means that their lives take the visible shape of the Spirit of love and truth.”
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.141.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.141.
Gratitude is easy; I can think of all that I am thankful for, and that's probably the best way into worship on a difficult, distracted day.
Lucy Faulkner-Gawlinski
Lucy Faulkner-Gawlinski
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Gratitude is easy; I can think of all that I am thankful for, and that's probably the best way into worship on a difficult, distracted day.
Lucy Faulkner-Gawlinski
Lucy Faulkner-Gawlinski
The word [Quaker] can often invoke images of a quaint and peculiar people from the past, with men in distinctive hats and women wearing bonnets. Today, however, a Quaker is more likely to be a young African Evangelical Christian, or a middle-aged American humanist who practices Buddhist meditation.
![“The word [Quaker] can often invoke images of a quaint and peculiar people from the past, with men in distinctive hats and women wearing bonnets. Today, however, a Quaker is more likely to be a young African Evangelical Christian, or perhaps a middle-aged American humanist who practices Buddhist meditation.”
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November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The word [Quaker] can often invoke images of a quaint and peculiar people from the past, with men in distinctive hats and women wearing bonnets. Today, however, a Quaker is more likely to be a young African Evangelical Christian, or a middle-aged American humanist who practices Buddhist meditation.
Goodness is stronger than evil; Love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; Life is stringer than death; Victory is ours through Him who loves us.
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Goodness is stronger than evil; Love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; Life is stringer than death; Victory is ours through Him who loves us.
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Discernment demands humility and patience. Everyone must surrender their own will and commit themselves to being attentive to the movement of the Spirit.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth (p.94).
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth (p.94).
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Discernment demands humility and patience. Everyone must surrender their own will and commit themselves to being attentive to the movement of the Spirit.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth (p.94).
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth (p.94).
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The way Jesus carried himself, there is no record of a woman even being afraid of him, and they brought children to him. The People afraid of him were persons of power.
Dr. Chris E. W. Green
Dr. Chris E. W. Green
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The way Jesus carried himself, there is no record of a woman even being afraid of him, and they brought children to him. The People afraid of him were persons of power.
Dr. Chris E. W. Green
Dr. Chris E. W. Green
The dictates of humanity came in opposition to the law of the land, and we ignored the law.
Levi Coffin (Quaker abolitionist)
Levi Coffin (Quaker abolitionist)
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The dictates of humanity came in opposition to the law of the land, and we ignored the law.
Levi Coffin (Quaker abolitionist)
Levi Coffin (Quaker abolitionist)
For the way to God lies through deep darkness in which all knowledge and all created wisdom and all pleasure and prudence and all human hope and human joy are defeated and annulled by the overwhelming purity of the light and the presence of God.
Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
For the way to God lies through deep darkness in which all knowledge and all created wisdom and all pleasure and prudence and all human hope and human joy are defeated and annulled by the overwhelming purity of the light and the presence of God.
Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation
'That of God in every one' is not simply something in us that calls us to remember God... it is the indwelling Christ, the divine Logos, the very power of which can show us our dark condition and lead us into a new, holy life...
George Amos Jr.
George Amos Jr.
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
'That of God in every one' is not simply something in us that calls us to remember God... it is the indwelling Christ, the divine Logos, the very power of which can show us our dark condition and lead us into a new, holy life...
George Amos Jr.
George Amos Jr.
I think we exist to discern the will of God, and that looks like a lot of different things. Sometimes (our purpose) is to join a protest... And sometimes (our) purpose is to make sure the parent who's just had surgery doesn't have to worry about dinner.
Emily Provance
Emily Provance
October 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I think we exist to discern the will of God, and that looks like a lot of different things. Sometimes (our purpose) is to join a protest... And sometimes (our) purpose is to make sure the parent who's just had surgery doesn't have to worry about dinner.
Emily Provance
Emily Provance
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
October 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
As Friends we commit ourselves to a way of worship which allows God to teach and transform us. We have found corporately that the Spirit, if rightly followed, will lead us into truth, unity and love: all our testimonies grow from this leading.
Quaker Faith & practice, 1.01
Quaker Faith & practice, 1.01
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
As Friends we commit ourselves to a way of worship which allows God to teach and transform us. We have found corporately that the Spirit, if rightly followed, will lead us into truth, unity and love: all our testimonies grow from this leading.
Quaker Faith & practice, 1.01
Quaker Faith & practice, 1.01
My book, 'The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth' will be published by T&T Clark (Bloomsbury) next week, on Thursday 30th October.
The Quaker Faith
In this accessible introduction to the Quaker tradition, Stuart Masters traces the roots of the Quaker way in 17th-century English Puritanism and founder George…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My book, 'The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth' will be published by T&T Clark (Bloomsbury) next week, on Thursday 30th October.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
Jesus is the refuge. The man on death row. The child at the border. The single mom with two jobs. the person with a disability. The friend with an addiction. The woman sharing # metoo. The transgender co-worker. The kid with no lunch money. The least of these.
October 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Jesus is the refuge. The man on death row. The child at the border. The single mom with two jobs. the person with a disability. The friend with an addiction. The woman sharing # metoo. The transgender co-worker. The kid with no lunch money. The least of these.
Subjection, poverty, injustice and war are closely allied. This situation demands sweeping political and economic change...
London Yearly Meeting, 1937
London Yearly Meeting, 1937
October 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Subjection, poverty, injustice and war are closely allied. This situation demands sweeping political and economic change...
London Yearly Meeting, 1937
London Yearly Meeting, 1937
The cross represents the power that denigrates human bodies, destroys life, and preys on the vulnerable in society. As the cross is defeated, so too is that power.
Kelly Brown Douglas
Kelly Brown Douglas
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The cross represents the power that denigrates human bodies, destroys life, and preys on the vulnerable in society. As the cross is defeated, so too is that power.
Kelly Brown Douglas
Kelly Brown Douglas