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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 4h

With your sins and the sins of your parents: admit them, repent them, heal the wounds. — #8ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #8

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 16h

Bring into God’s light those emotions, attitudes and prejudices in yourself which lie at the root of destructive conflict, acknowledging your need for forgiveness and grace. In what ways are you involved in the work of reco... https://advicesandqueries.org/2025/10/08/bring-into-gods-light-those.html

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 1d

What do Jesus’ life and ministry mean to you? — #9ractice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Queries #9

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 1d

Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In worship together we can find the assurance of God’s love and the strength to go on with renewed courage. — #11/passage/1-02/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #11

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 2d

Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — #5ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 2d

Children and young people need love and stability. Are we doing all we can to uphold and sustain parents and others who carry the responsibility for providing this care? — #24/passage/1-02/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #24

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 3d

At Meeting today, read a Pendle Hill Pamphlet from 1985 by a Quaker working with a broad coalition of faith groups to provide sanctuary to Central Americans being treated illegally and inhumanely by INS. Depressing and inspiring, but I’m leaning into the inspiring parts.

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 3d

Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — #5ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 3d

Do you take part as often as you can in meetings for church affairs? Are you familiar enough with our church government to contribute to its disciplined processes? Do you consider difficult questions with an informed mind as well a... https://advicesandqueries.org/2025/10/05/do-you-take-part-as.html

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 4d

Do you work gladly with other religious groups in the pursuit of common goals? While remaining faithful to Quaker insights, try to enter imaginatively into the life and witness of other communities of faith, creating together the bonds of friendship. — #6k/passage/1-02/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #6

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 4d

Are you ready to respond to any concern God may lay upon you, large or small? — #14actice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Queries #14

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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 5d

Good advice for nations as well as people

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 5d

Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — #15actice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Queries #15

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 5d

A long-term relationship brings tensions as well as fulfilment. If your relationship with your partner is under strain, seek help in understanding the other’s point of view and in exploring your own feelings, wh... https://advicesandqueries.org/2025/10/03/a-longterm-relationship-brings-tensions.html

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 6d

Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — #5ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 6d

Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — #5ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 7d

Humbly seek out that of God in the way others live, and find what’s deeply right in it. — #1ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #1

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 7d

Stand still, wait for divine guidance, then act. — #8th-and-practice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting #8

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 8d

Do you recognise the needs and gifts of each member of your family and household, not forgetting your own? Try to make your home a place of loving friendship and enjoyment, where all who live or visit may find the peace and refreshment of God’s presence. — #26/passage/1-02/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #26

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 8d

Forgive and forgive and forgive. — #15es-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #15

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 9d

Face your fears and your powerlessness. Have faith. — #11es-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #11

Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 9d

Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their beliefs? Bear witness to the humanity of all people, including those who bre... https://advicesandqueries.org/2025/09/29/are-you-alert-to-practices.html

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 10d

Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — #5ces-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 10d

Is every aspect of your life open to the transforming power of God? What stands in the way? — #4ractice/advices-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Queries #4

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Quaker Advices and Queries @advicesandqueries.org · 11d

Have joyful worship. Do not always be somber. — #10es-and-queries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #10

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