ARE YOU LONGING FOR PEACE ?
THEN JOIN US AT THE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE,
37,
FOR OUR MEETINGS FOR WORSHIP
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WAR DOES NOT DECIDE WHO IS RIGHT ONLY WHO IS LEFT.
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Martin Luther King said:
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending
spiral
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of
diminishing
evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder
the lie nor establish the truth. Through violence you may
murder
the hater, but you do not murder hate. Returning violence for
violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night
already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot overcome darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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John Lampen said, in “ Mending Hurts ” , his
Swarthmore Lecture 1987:
“The hurt which my sister or brother is causing me is born
of the wounds which all of us have given them…
Who knows how far this particular chain goes back,
binding us together in a dark prison of revenge and pain?
But I am resolved that what I now carry will not be passed on.
No-one else will have cause to stumble under its weight,
because I accept this suffering and it will end in me.”
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Forgive yourself and others. Accept responsibility for your
life
