Statements by bodies of Friends

• Meetings for Worship section of 1806 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Discipline, with a few additions from New York and Ohio
• Meetings for Worship section of 1840 New England Yearly Meeting Discipline
• Public Worship section of 1887 Richmond Declaration of Faith
• Group Worship section of current North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Discipline
• Page 16 of current New York Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice - start of Corporate Worship section
• New England Yearly Meeting of Friends - The Meeting for Worship
• A Guide to Quaker Meeting for Worship - Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA
• Open Worship - Friends in Christ, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Works by George Fox, "founder" of Quakerism

• George Fox on Ministry: Excerpts from his Journal
• Something Further Concerning Silent Meetings
• To Friends in the Ministry

Works by Isaac Penington, a prominent early Friend

• Concerning the Worship of the Living God
• Some Propositions and Considerations Concerning the Nature of Church Worships... from A Question to the Professors of Christianity (1667)
• A Treatise Concerning God's Teachings, and Christ's Law (c. 1671) - see section XIII

Writing by Samuel Bownas, Friends minister, 1702

• To the meeting of Ministers at Kendal in Westmoreland

19th Century Writings

• The Pastoral Movement, by Joel Bean (1889)
• The Inspired Ministry, Two Stories from the Writings of Thomas Gould
• Caroline Stephen on Worship - selections from Quaker Strongholds

20th/21st Century Writings

• On Silent Worship, by George Amoss, Jr.
• Worship, by Everett L. Cattell
• Worship, by Maurice A. Creasey
• The Gathered Meeting, by Thomas R. Kelly
• The Lord of Silence, by Davide Melodia
• On the Vocal Ministry, by Ruth M. Pitman
• Congregational Silence, by Max I. Reich
• Dialogue About Worship, by Arthur O. Roberts
• Worship, by Arthur O. Roberts
• Quaker Meeting for Worship, by Douglas Steere
• Quaker Worship: We Cannot Do It On Our Own, by Christopher E. Stern
• Ways of Worship, by Tayeko Yamanouchi
• Three Levels of "vocal ministry", by Michael Fondanova (4 parts)
• Pastoral and Programmed with Open Worship - explanation of worship at Clintondale Friends Church

Sermons

• The Quaker Homiletic Online Anthology - collection of Quaker Sermons

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