Tract Source: Tract Association of Friends
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A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement
Friends use special vocabulary to describe their inward experiences. This book discusses and explains these words for a contemporary audience.
Brian Drayton and William P. Taber
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A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
An overview of how one attains spiritual knowledge. It was first published in 1711, after Crisp’s death. Includes an introduction and updated language and punctuation from the 1711 edition.
Stephen Crisp
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Christ and the Scriptures
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.…
Max Reich
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Letters to a Friend, on some of the Primitive Doctrines of Christianity
John Wilbur (1774-1856) wrote letters to George Crosfield stating the reasons for rejecting trends among Friends that have been labeled “Hicksite” and “Gurneyite.” The letters are a plea for a Christian faith founded both on the outward, atoning work of Jesus on the cross, and on the inward, transforming work of Christ in the human…
John Wilbur (1774-1856)
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Living in the Spirit: What One Quaker Has Learned
A list of lessons that the author has learned about God, Jesus, the Scriptures, and worship.
Roger Dreisbach-Williams
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Love in Action
Love in action begins with the wonderful love of God, a love which reaches out to embrace all people and to embrace all of creation. By experiencing God ourselves, we become transformed and radiate God’s love.
Virginia Schurman
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My Friend God
My Friend God can be your Friend, too. God is always with us. We need to learn to be quiet and still to hear God.
Christine Greenland
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On Solid Sitting
Some of those meetings were seasons of favor to me, never to be forgotten. The solid sitting of some Friends frequently reached me and touched my heart.
Brian Drayton
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Reclaiming the Bible in Friends Tradition
Friends have valued the teachings of the Bible. The Scriptures are a witness to the Word of God, not the word of God itself.
Virginia Schurman
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Selected Quotations from William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown
William Penn (1644-1718) wrote No Cross, No Crown in 1669 about the importance of self-denial in the Christian life.
Sarah I. Miller