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Rufus Jones Quotes:

Rufus Jones quotes

Ocupation: Drummer

Life: May 27, 1936 - April 25, 1990

Birthday: May 27

Death: April 25

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If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

Topics: Adversity, Dark, Night, Dark Night Of The Soul, Broken Pieces

quote i pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming rufus jones Quotes

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

Topics: Circles, Events, Quiet

Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.

Topics: Heart, Light, Hands, Quaker, Light And Love

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

Topics: Finding Yourself, Way, Losing Yourself

Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.

Topics: War, Men, Ties, Quaker, Forward Movement

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

Topics: Fighting, Unjust, Economic

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Topics: Faith, People, Burned, Great Future

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

Topics: Intelligent, Thug, People

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