Stuart Masters

To discover the truth about Jesus Christ and the truth about ourselves in him - and to believe it as the truth - is to have a different roux stirred into being in our souls. Not one of fear and anxiety, but one of hope and peace and assurance. C. Baxter Kruger

To discover the truth about Jesus Christ and the truth about ourselves in him - and to believe it as the truth - is to have a different roux stirred into being in our souls. Not one of fear and anxiety, but one of hope and peace and assurance.

C. Baxter Kruger

Yes, I think so. I will contact Philipp about the typo.

Ah, got it. Sorry! Philip is an Austrian, living in Serbia, so his first language is not English!

My confession I am a sinner doesn't make too much sense to me in terms of my sexual life or my disobedience towards my mother. It makes more sense to look on a world hunger map. Dorothee Solle

My confession I am a sinner doesn't make too much sense to me in terms of my sexual life or my disobedience towards my mother. It makes more sense to look on a world hunger map.

Dorothee Solle

The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: The peace testimony is a conviction that God’s way, as it is revealed in Christ, is a way of peace that rejects the use of coercive force and violent conflict. For nearly four hundred years, Quakers have sought to resist war and practice nonviolence, peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Along with various Anabaptist groups, Friends are one of the Historic Peace Churches. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, pp.113-114.

The peace testimony is a conviction that God’s way, as it is revealed in Christ, is a way of peace that rejects the use of coercive force and violent conflict... Along with various Anabaptist groups, Friends are one of the Historic Peace Churches.

The Quaker Faith, pp.113-114.

The historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

Elton Trueblood

The image includes the quotation below over a background taken from the paiting 'the presence in the midst.' Early Friends concluded that communion with the risen Lord must be substantially the same as that enjoyed by the first disciples - a fellowship in which he teaches his friends. Doug Gwyn

Early Friends concluded that communion with the risen Lord must be substantially the same as that enjoyed by the first disciples - a fellowship in which he teaches his friends.

Doug Gwyn

Once again: "If violence and war is the way to peace, then Rome was right, and Christ died for nothing."

Michael J. Gorman

A seemingly happy life may be empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

Atul Gawande

The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: Friends have attempted to maintain a “doing it all together” way of organizing the faith community rather than the “doing it for you” or “doing it to you” approaches common in more hierarchical structures. This is reflected in a broad and relatively inclusive view of ministry, which has always recognized the ministry of women. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.170.

Friends have attempted to maintain a “doing it all together” way of organizing the faith community... This is reflected in a broad and relatively inclusive view of ministry, which has always recognized the ministry of women.

The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.170.

The image includes the quotation below in white letters on a black background, along with a picture of Audre Lorde (a middle-aged African-American woman wearing a head scarf): "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." Audre Lorde

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

Audre Lorde

Thanks Jeffrey! I looked it up and it seems to be attributed to the Greek philosopher, Empedocles.

The image includes the quotation below in white letters on a dark green background: Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another, the closer they come to God. Dorotheus of Gaza

Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God.

Dorotheus of Gaza

The eternal purpose of the Triune God is not to place us under law and turn us into religious legalists; it is to include us in their relationship, and give us a place in their shared life and fellowship and joy. C. Baxter Kruger

The eternal purpose of the Triune God is not to place us under law and turn us into religious legalists; it is to include us in their relationship, and give us a place in their shared life and fellowship and joy.

C. Baxter Kruger

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

bell hooks

The image includes the quotation below on a light green/gray background, along with a picture of Hildeguard in the bottom left corner: The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature. Hildeguard of Bingen

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

Hildeguard of Bingen

The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: …people must try to face their dilemmas and decisions without preconceptions, accepting that their natural preferences may be misleading. How can they be vigilant about the influence of socialization on their assumptions and intentions? How can they attend to what love requires of them with humility, recognizing that they may get it wrong? The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and truth, p.138.

…people must try to face their dilemmas and decisions without preconceptions, accepting that their natural preferences may be misleading... How can they attend to what love requires of them with humility, recognizing that they may get it wrong?

The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and truth, p.138.

Simply acknowledging our dual citizenship in the world and in Christ brings the Spirit of Truth into the ways we live our lives daily.

Sara Beth Terrell

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom. Only those who understand the profound paradox of the cross can also understand the whole meaning of Jesus' assertion: my kingdom is not of this world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom. Only those who understand the profound paradox of the cross can also understand the whole meaning of Jesus' assertion: my kingdom is not of this world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: An essential paradox of [the Quaker spiritual] journey is that, when people give up all their striving and delusions, they can receive a fundamentally new perception. Many firmly held assumptions turn out to be misconceptions, and they melt away, revealing a glimpse of the truth, about themselves and about the world. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.135.

An essential paradox of this journey is that, when people give up all their striving and delusions, they can receive a fundamentally new perception. Many firmly held assumptions turn out to be misconceptions, and they melt away, revealing a glimpse of the truth, about themselves and about the world.

The very least we can offer the world is the Truth - after all, we are followers of Jesus, who declared he was the Way, the Truth, and the Light.

Karla Jay

The image includes the quotation below on a brown background, along with a picture of Desmond Tutu: Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through him who loved us. Desmond Tutu

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through him who loved us.

Desmond Tutu

The image includes the quotation below on top of a picture of "The Black Christ" book cover: “Put simply, the promise to “Make America Great Again” is an effort to carry forth the legacy of the Anglo-Saxon myth and the culture of whiteness that sustains it. In this regard, the color line is about more than simply a white/black binary. It reflects a line of defense against any people who are deemed a threat to the notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority.” Kelly Brown Douglas

“...the promise to “Make America Great Again” is an effort to carry forth the legacy of the Anglo-Saxon myth and the culture of whiteness that sustains it... It reflects a line of defense against any people who are deemed a threat to the notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority.”

Kelly Brown Douglas

The following quotation is set over a piece of abstract art: Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer if it were offered to God. St. Martin de Porres

Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer if it were offered to God.

St. Martin de Porres

The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: Are [Friends] working to transform the unjust structures of society, or are they upholding them? It is hard to address these questions unless the truth is revealed and clearly seen. The Spirit’s diagnosis helps people to see things clearly. Such diagnosis is not about personal guilt or shame. It is about facing the dissonances in human lives, and the way they fall short of the fullness of God’s love and justice. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.136.

The Spirit’s diagnosis helps people to see things clearly. Such diagnosis is not about personal guilt or shame. It is about facing the dissonances in human lives, and the way they fall short of the fullness of God’s love and justice.

The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.136.

To fall into the hands of the living God requires leaping, laying ourselves open to risk.

Eden Grace

Creating and holding space for discernment is profoundly counter-cultural work. We live in a culture that too often regards us as empty vessels to be filled with someone else's knowledge, someone else's agenda, someone else's truth.

Parker J. Palmer.

The dominant religion on the planet is not Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Judaism, but the pervasive faith in violence.

Walter Wink

The dominant religion on the planet is not Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Judaism, but the pervasive faith in violence.

Walter Wink

The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: …the Quaker way was founded on an experience of God’s powerful inward presence and the capacity of the Holy Spirit to teach and transform people. The purpose of both communal worship and individual spiritual practice, therefore, was to make people aware of this presence and attentive to divine guidance. Friends found that the best way to do this was a practice of unprogrammed waiting worship, in which the community sat together in silence and stillness to listen and attend to the divine presence. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.67.

The Quaker way was founded on an experience of God’s powerful inward presence and the capacity of the Holy Spirit to teach and transform people. The purpose of both communal worship and individual spiritual practice...was to make people aware of this presence and attentive to divine guidance.