Early Friends wrote extensively about their movement, often in its defense. We offer a number of writings by William Penn to help modern Friends understand who we are and who we aren’t. We also offer more recent writings on Friends’ faith and practice.
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Friends Calendar
Since 1885, the Tract Association has produced the Friends Calendar, which uses numbers for months and days of the week. This is consistent with Scripture and Friends tradition. We offer the calendar in wall and pocket sizes. The wall calendar is also available in digital format.
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The Beatitudes: Pathways of Living in True Joy and Peace
The teachings of Jesus called Beatitudes, recorded in Matthew and Luke, are an invitation to a way of living that brings true happiness and inward and outward peace.
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The Outward and the Inward Christ
The Jesus of sacred history is the Christ of inward experience. All the qualities of that blessed life, the unfoldings of the Divine nature are available today through the Indwelling. God has revealed his mind through his son, but also in sacred literature. The public ministry of Christ was a constant fulfilling of the Scriptures.
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How Grace Works
There is such an experience as “conversion.” It is not a mechanical process or a mere gush of emotion. It is a transaction in the realm of the spirit, where deep calleth unto deep, registering itself outwardly.
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How to Become Happy
When we do something that we feel to be wrong, a feeling of reproof rises in us. This is from the Spirit of God. But as we obey God, we are led into deep happiness with him.
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Peace Be with You: A Study of the Spiritual Basis of the Friends Peace Testimony
A study of the spiritual basis of the Friends peace testimony.
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The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the glorified Christ. When the day of the Spirit broke in power on the day of Pentecost, mighty results followed. One result of this new experience was the formation of a new fellowship.
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On Coming to Love One’s Enemies
The Holy Spirit makes us able to love and gives us the specific leadings to live in that love.
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Prayer
Prayer is actually something God does in us. When we turn to God in prayer, we turn to One who is always within us and waiting.
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Our Divine Lord
Jesus is not simply a great teacher and a beautiful example. He is the proper object of faith and worthy of worship. He lives and reigns in the lives of his people.