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Thus we see that Jesus owned the Love and Grace that appeared in Women and did not despise it;
and by what is recorded in the Scriptures, he
received as much love, kindness, compassion and
tender dealing toward him from Women, as he did
from many others .... Mark this, you that despise
and oppose the message of the Lord God that he
sends by Women: what had become of the redemption
of the whole body of mankind, if they had not
believed the message that the Lord Jesus sent by
these Women, of and concerning his resurrection.
--Margaret Fell, "Womens Speaking Justified," 1666 |
NONVIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for
them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
that ye may be the children of your Father which is
in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the
evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just
and on the unjust.
--Matthew 5.44-45 (KJV) |
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We are called upon to love the loveless and the unlovable, to reach out to the racists and the
torturers, to all who hurt and damage, cripple and kill
.... God, through us, and in many other ways,
offers them healing love and divine pity and takes
their hurts away.
We are called to that obedience which freely gives up self, possessions, life, beliefs, in following that vision, that greater love in which alone is life and peace. This does not mean that we lie down like |