A Quaker Prayer Life
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Author |
: David Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 2013-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0983498059 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780983498056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Quaker Prayer Life by : David Johnson
A Quaker prayer life arises from a life of continuing daily attentiveness. The first generation of Quakers followed a covenant with God, based on assidious obedience to the promptings of the Inward Light. This process did not require the established churches, priests or liturgies. Quaker prayer then became a practice of patient waiting in silence. Prayer is a conscious choice to seek God, in whatever form that Divine Presence speaks to each of us, moment to moment. The difficulties we experience in inward prayer are preparation for our outward lives. Each time we return to the centre in prayer we are modelling how to live our lives; each time we dismiss the internal intrusions we are strengthening that of God within us and denying the role of the Self; every time we turn to prayer and to God we are seeking an increase in the measure of Light in our lives. David Johnson is a Member of Queensland Regional Meeting of the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. David is a geologist with both industry and academic experience, and wrote The Geology of Australia, specifically for the general public. He has a long commitment to nonviolence and opposing war and the arms trade, and has worked with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. David delivered the 2005 Backhouse Lecture to Australia Yearly Meeting on Peace is a Struggle. He was part of the work to establish the Silver Wattle Quaker Centre in Australia in 2010, and is Co-Director of the Centre for 2013-14.
Author |
: Marcelle Martin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2016-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0997060417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780997060416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Life Is Love by : Marcelle Martin
Our Life is Love describes the transformational spiritual journey of the first Quakers, who turned to the Light of Christ within and allowed it to be their guide. Many Friends today use different language, but are still called to make the same journey. In our time people seeking deeper access to the profound teachings of Christianity want more than just beliefs, they want direct experience. Focusing on ten elements of the spiritual journey, this book is a guide to a Spirit-filled life that affects this world. Quakers in the seventeenth century and today provide examples of people and communities living in the midst of the world whose radical understanding of Christ's teachings led them to become powerful agents of social change. The book offers a simple, clear explanation of the spiritual journey that is suitable not only for Quakers, but for all Christians, and for seekers wanting to better understand our spiritual experience and the fullness of God's call to us. The book would make an excellent focus for study groups. Marcelle Martin has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States. She served for four years as the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill and was a core teacher in the School of the Spirit program, The Way of Ministry. She is the author of the Pendle Hill pamphlets Invitation to a Deeper Communion and Holding One Another in the Light. In 2013 she was the Mullen Writing Fellow at Earlham School of Religion while working on this book.
Author |
: Douglas Gwyn |
Publisher |
: Quakerpress of Fgc |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1937768554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781937768553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Sustainable Life by : Douglas Gwyn
A well-known Quaker historian explores the qualities of Quaker faith and practice that contribute to living sustainably in the world today. He explores such paradoxes as equality and community, unity and differentiation, integrity and personal discernment, and other aspects of life that Quakers have worked to bring into balance through their 350-year history. How have Quakers learned to create the kind of individual and community life that can prepare us to live fully and responsibly into a time of social and planetary change?
Author |
: Thomas R. Kelly |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1996-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060643614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060643617 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Testament of Devotion by : Thomas R. Kelly
Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures. I have in mind something deeper than the simplification of our external programs, our absurdly crowded calendars of appointments through which so many pantingly and frantically gasp. These do become simplified in holy obedience, and the poise and peace we have been missing can really be found. But there is a deeper, an internal simplification of the whole of one's personality, stilled, tranquil, in childlike trust listening ever to Eternity's whisper, walking with a smile into the dark."
Author |
: Rex Ambler |
Publisher |
: John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2013-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780996585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780996586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quaker Way by : Rex Ambler
This book is an attempt 'to explain the Quaker way, as far as that is possible'. It is a distinctive way and, though perhaps no better than others, it has its own integrity and effectiveness. Although it is fairly well known, Quakerism is not well understood, so the purpose of this book is to make it intelligible, to explain how it works as a spiritual practice and why it has adopted the particular practices it has. It is aimed primarily at non-Quakers, who may nonetheless be interested to know what Quakerism is about. ,
Author |
: Kathleen Maia Tapp |
Publisher |
: Earthword Press |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2021-08-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1662905637 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781662905636 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prayer of the World by : Kathleen Maia Tapp
Prayer of the World opens a window into an astonishingly beautiful world, showing life as a vast prayer in which we live and breathe. Through poetry and luminous photographs, it brings forth the voices of earth, sea, sky, and the entire web of life. From star fire to water's blue stillness, from eagle's soaring flight to canary's solemn teaching comes the plea: "Join the prayer; the web is greatly strained." Kathleen Maia and Ken traveled to many sites in the United States and beyond-she with her pen and notebook, and he with his camera. As their pilgrimage continued, they realized that the poetry and photography together created a stunning whole, a vibrant expression of Earth's life and Earth's plea: "Give back to the web; add your voice to the song. Join the Prayer of the World." As alarm, anxiety, and upheaval escalate across the globe, Prayer of the World raises not only Earth's lament, but also Earth's great hope: "All is connected in a living breathing web...the living pulse of energy that flows through all creation-each pulse a prayer." To learn more about Prayer of the World visit: www.prayeroftheworld.org
Author |
: Angelina Conti |
Publisher |
: Quaker Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 188830586X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781888305869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Spirit Rising by : Angelina Conti
Author |
: François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 80 |
Release |
: 1846 |
ISBN-10 |
: COLUMBIA:50198821 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Guide to True Peace, Or, A Method of Attaining to Inward and Spiritual Prayer by : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Author |
: Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia |
Publisher |
: Interactive Publications Pty Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 22 |
Release |
: 2015-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780975157961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0975157965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Advices & Queries by : Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia
Advices and queries designed to challenge and inspire Australian Quakers in their personal lives and in their life as a religious community.
Author |
: Quaker Quest |
Publisher |
: eBook Partnership |
Total Pages |
: 53 |
Release |
: 2016-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783019793 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783019794 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twelve Quakers and Prayer by : Quaker Quest
What is prayer? If it isn't pleading or wishing, what is it? What's the point if prayers are not answered? Is prayer expecting God to do what we should do? Can you pray if you don't believe in God? Twelve Quakers respond to these and many more questions about prayer from their own experience. Each responds differently. Some recognise that how they know or understand God shapes their prayer life. Some see praying as 'holding the light'. Some know that letting go of self to enter into a greater self is crucial for them. All see prayer as communication. Simply and clearly, they describe how they pray and tell of the changes it has made to their lives. They hope their attempts will inspire readers to engage again with prayer in a more experimental and radical way