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? — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #24
Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
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 as a generous and loving spirit? Are you prepared to let your insights and personal wishes take their place alongside those of others or be set aside as the meeting seeks the right way forward? If you cannot attend, uphold the meeting prayerfully. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #15
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. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #6
Are you ready to respond to any concern God may lay upon you, large or small? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #14
Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #15
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, which may be powerful and destructive. Consider the wishes and feelings of any children involved, and remember their enduring need for love and security. Seek God’s guidance. If you undergo the distress of separation or divorce, try to maintain some compassionate communication so that arrangements can be made with the minimum of bitterness. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #25
Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
Humbly seek out that of God in the way others live, and find what’s deeply right in it. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #1
Stand still, wait for divine guidance, then act. — New England Yearly Meeting #8
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. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #26
Forgive and forgive and forgive. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #15
Face your fears and your powerlessness. Have faith. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #11
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 break society’s conventions or its laws. Try to discern new growing points in social and economic life. Seek to understand the causes of injustice, social unrest and fear. Are you working to bring about a just and compassionate society which allows everyone to develop their capacities and fosters the desire to serve? — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #33
Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
Is every aspect of your life open to the transforming power of God? What stands in the way? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #4
Have joyful worship. Do not always be somber. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #10
Do you welcome the diversity of culture, language and expressions of faith in our yearly meeting and in the world community of Friends? Seek to increase your understanding and to gain from this rich heritage and wide range of spiritual insights. Uphold your own and other yearly meetings in your prayers. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #16
Take time to learn about other people’s experiences of the Light. Remember the importance of the Bible, the writings of Friends and all writings which reveal the ways of God. As you learn from others, can you in turn give freely from what you have gained? While respecting the experiences and opinions of others, do not be afraid to say what you have found and what you value. Appreciate that doubt and questioning can also lead to spiritual growth and to a greater awareness of the Light that is in us all. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #5