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The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,211 ratings — published 2013
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,919 ratings — published 2014
A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.10 — 896 ratings — published 1998
Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.97 — 289 ratings — published 2001
Friends for 300 Years: The History and Beliefs of the Society of Friends Since George Fox Started the Quaker Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.04 — 89 ratings — published 1952
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.12 — 551 ratings — published 2017
Flowers from the Storm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,287 ratings — published 1992
No Shame, No Fear (Quaker Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 6 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,172 ratings — published 2003
The Quakers in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.94 — 120 ratings — published 2003
The Friendly Persuasion: A Classic American Saga of Family, Faith, and Love in the Revolutionary Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,017 ratings — published 1945
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,330 ratings — published 2007
Holy Silence: The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.08 — 322 ratings — published 2005
The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.76 — 59 ratings — published 1969
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,166 ratings — published 2000
Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by (shelved 4 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.95 — 128 ratings — published 1983
The Messenger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,366 ratings — published 2012
Godless for God's Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism
by (shelved 4 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.10 — 67 ratings — published 2006
Delivering the Truth (Quaker Midwife Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.70 — 921 ratings — published 2016
The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.69 — 390 ratings — published 2008
The Arrow Over the Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.33 — 684 ratings — published 1998
A Testament of Devotion: Five Quaker Essays on Finding Inner Peace Through God's Presence and Simplification (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,585 ratings — published 1941
Four Doors to Meeting for Worship (Pendle Hill Pamphlets Book 306)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.38 — 50 ratings — published 1992
Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920 (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.93 — 69 ratings — published 2010
Mind the Light: Learning to See With Spiritual Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.05 — 78 ratings — published 2006
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.03 — 162,666 ratings — published 1958
Quaker Testimony (Elizabeth Elliot Mystery #3)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.24 — 112 ratings — published 1996
The Light in Their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2000
The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 1996
They Loved to Laugh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,501 ratings — published 1942
Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.03 — 29 ratings — published 1990
Mothers of Feminism : The Story of Quaker Women in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.90 — 48 ratings — published 1997
Forged in the Fire (Quaker Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.82 — 485 ratings — published 2006
Quaker Silence (Elizabeth Elliot Mystery #1)
by (shelved 3 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.41 — 131 ratings — published 1992
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.73 — 97 ratings — published
My American Eden (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.63 — 49 ratings — published 2004
Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published
Quakerism: The Basics: The Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published
The Unlikely Gunwharf Rats (St. Brendan #4)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.63 — 204 ratings — published 2024
The Winter Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,933 ratings — published 2022
What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,152 ratings — published 2021
Quaker faith & practice (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.47 — 159 ratings — published 2013
The Dazzle of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.58 — 603 ratings — published 1997
The Journal of George Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.89 — 183 ratings — published 1924
The Inheritance (Secrets of the Shetlands, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.10 — 789 ratings — published 2016
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.37 — 27 ratings — published 1988
The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.01 — 136 ratings — published 1971
Encounter With Silence: Reflections from the Quaker Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.88 — 59 ratings — published 1987
The Spirit of the Quakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 3.98 — 61 ratings — published 2010
Truth of the Heart: An Anthology of George Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as quakers)
avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published 2007
“I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jackass. But then, one day in 1965 or so, it was simply abolished. With a stroke of his pen, Pope John XXIII - who had such good ideas about other things - declared that liturgy would henceforth be in the vernacular language of the people. That was, effectively, the end of Latin chant.
Then all those monks and nuns who had devoted hours and hours a day began to sicken and fall into depressions, but nobody noticed for a long time. Maybe, as I can well believe, the music toned up their systems in some mysterious way. Or perhaps chant really was a language that God understood. Faced with numerous liturgical scholas shrieking away in the new vernacular hymns, Divinity may have covered its ears and withdrawn, leaving the monks to pine. We parish musicians, illiterate in anything written after the 13th century, stumbled around trying to score liturgies for guitar and bongo drums, trying to make sense of texts like "Eat his body! Drink his blood!"
It wasn't because the music got so bad that I quit going to Mass, but it certainly was the beginning of my doubts about papal infallibility.”
― The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Then all those monks and nuns who had devoted hours and hours a day began to sicken and fall into depressions, but nobody noticed for a long time. Maybe, as I can well believe, the music toned up their systems in some mysterious way. Or perhaps chant really was a language that God understood. Faced with numerous liturgical scholas shrieking away in the new vernacular hymns, Divinity may have covered its ears and withdrawn, leaving the monks to pine. We parish musicians, illiterate in anything written after the 13th century, stumbled around trying to score liturgies for guitar and bongo drums, trying to make sense of texts like "Eat his body! Drink his blood!"
It wasn't because the music got so bad that I quit going to Mass, but it certainly was the beginning of my doubts about papal infallibility.”
― The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”
― A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world
― A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world
