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
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
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
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 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
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
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“The Quaker did not scream: not when the blood began to come swiftly down his face, not when the force of Elf's… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy,… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want… — Jimmy Tingle 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
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 wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at… — Andrew Luck 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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“What did it mean to give aid in a “Quakerly fashion”? How did Quaker ethics shape the Gadabouts’ collective memory of being… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wherefore give all diligence to the Spirit's motion and leadings, what it moves against, and what it leads to; for now will… — James Nayler 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
