John Woolman Quotes

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• While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down…
• I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures will…
• All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to…
• Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and…
• There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however,…
• To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.
• My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I…
• If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct…
• Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary…
• Conduct is more convincing than language.
• To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life…
• I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in…
• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my…
• The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to…
• About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over…
• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and…
• Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every…
• From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in…
• I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.
• The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for…

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