I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

- Rufus Jones

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

- Rufus Jones

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you thr…

- Rufus Jones

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

- Rufus Jones

Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace …

- Rufus Jones

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting f…

- Rufus Jones

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

- Rufus Jones

Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness t…

- Rufus Jones