Are you honest and truthful in all you say and do? Do you maintain strict integrity in business transactions and in your dealings with individuals and organisations? Do you use money and information entrusted to you with discretion and responsibility? Taking oaths implies a double standard of truth; in choosing to affirm instead, be aware of the claim to integrity that you are making. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #37
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
How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the things which are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows of each other’s lives, ready to give help and to receive it, our meeting can be a channel for God’s love and forgiveness. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #18
Worship is our response to an awareness of God. We can worship alone, but when we join with others in expectant waiting we may discover a deeper sense of God’s presence. We seek a gathered stillness in our meetings for worship so that all may feel the power of God’s love drawing us together and leading us. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #8
Are you ready to respond to any concern God may lay upon you, large or small? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #14
Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself about the diversity of Friends’ theology and practice? The space within Quakerism is graciously large. Where are its boundaries? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #10
Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
Be grateful for the gifts you have. Neither be too proud of them nor value them too little. Do not waste time coveting the gifts of others. — New England Yearly Meeting #12
Remember your responsibilities as a citizen for the conduct of local, national, and international affairs. Do not shrink from the time and effort your involvement may demand. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #34
Try to live simply. A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what you do not need or cannot afford. Do you keep yourself informed about the effects your style of living is having on the global economy and environment? — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #41
Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? Let your life speak. When decisions have to be made, are you ready to join with others in seeking clearness, asking for God’s guidance and offering counsel to one another? — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #27
Face your fears and your powerlessness. Have faith. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #11
To whom or to what are you accountable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #7
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
Make space in your daily life for communion with God and for spiritual nurture through prayer, reading, meditation, and other disciplines which open you to the Spirit. — New England Yearly Meeting #4
Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships. Refrain from making prejudiced judgments about the life journeys of others. Do you foster the spirit of mutual understanding and forgiveness which our discipleship asks of us? Remember that each one of us is unique, precious, a child of God. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #22
Read the Bible. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #9
Is every aspect of your life open to the transforming power of God? What stands in the way? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #4
Find in your faith things to live humbly by and to die for. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #6
Consider which of the ways to happiness offered by society are truly fulfilling and which are potentially corrupting and destructive. Be discriminating when choosing means of entertainment and information. Resist the desire to acquire possessions or income through unethical investment, speculation or games of chance. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #39