As 2025 comes to an end, we look forward to the joys that God brings to us in 2026.
The following are some of the quotes and verses from the 2025 Tract Association of Friends Calendar. They're meaningful to reflect on as we end 2025 and enter 2026.
Excerpts from 2025 Tract Association of Friends Calendar
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. – 2 Corinthians 4:16
If we accept the act of worship as having central significance in our lives, as weekly experience of corporate worship is not enough…Those who consider worship important enough to make a specific plan for it are most apt to succeed in having a daily period of inward retirement. – Elise Boulding, 1989
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. – James 1:5
Oh! Let all that want it, harken unto the true Shepherd of the little Flock, for whom the Kingdom is prepared, who encourages them, and bids them fear not through the wolfish Destroyer is nigh unto them; yet he is the Overseer, and in all trials and exercises he is their Preservation. –Joan Vokins, 1687
The LORD is good to those who await Him
To the person who seeks Him,
It is good that he waits silently
For the salvation of the LORD.
–Lamentations 3:25-26
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. –Romans 8:28
Fox and early Friends accepted the outward work of Christ, but they insisted that it is [the] inward work which transforms us and guides us into new ways of ethical behavior, new ways of service, and new ways of fellowship. –William P. Taber, 1984
The Bible is a rich treasury of such experiences and insight, and is supremely important as the source of our knowledge of Jesus Christ. It is therefore unthinkable for Quakerism to be divorced from the Bible. In fact, because of the danger of individualism, Friends need biblical knowledge even more than do other Christians. – L. Hugh Doncaster, 1963
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. – Matthew 5:10-11
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work. –2 Timothy 3:16-17
If children are to be instructed in the ground work of true religion, ought they not to discover in those placed above them, a lively example thereof? – Sarah Tuke Grubb 1756-1790
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. –2 Corinthians 5:17
Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom.
–Luke 12:32
In this beatitude, our Lord and everlasting savior has reminded us that we are a blessed people when we are willing to accept punishment for obeying God. In those moments we experience the Kingdom in Christ’s magnificent light and grace that bring much joy [to] our hearts. –Arthur Berk, 2007
I am sensible that these stripping seasons have been very teaching to me; and when we look like fools to those who are foolish indeed, it is at such times magnificent light and grace that bring much joy [to] out hearts. We learn true wisdom; for in true silence we have the best teaching, even the Lord himself is our instructor. –Ruth Alocock Follows 1718-1808
Though this was a season of severe trial, yet upon serious retrospect, I can enroll it among those afflictions which have proved to me to be blessings in disguise ... .My soul can now, in tracing the wonderful dealings of an all-wise Providence, lean upon the staff of faith. –Ann Crowley, 1765-1826
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