My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
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
Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness. — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
“Emerson said, “I am more of a Quaker than anything else. I believe in the still, small voice.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Mind the Light; come under Holy Obedience. pg.33 in Prayer and Worship” — Douglas Steer Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a… — Bonnie Raitt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened… — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to… — John James Audubon 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
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
