As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more. — William Penn Copy Share Image
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself. — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and… — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
And if you love the light, then you come to the light to be proved, and tried whether your works be wrought… — Margaret Fell Copy Share Image
This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother,… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives. — John Woolman Copy Share Image
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
