All John Woolman Quotes
- 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… Disobedience
- 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
- 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… All
- 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… Appearing
- 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,… Age
- To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives. All
- 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… Alone
- 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… Abroad
- 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… Any
- Conduct is more convincing than language. Conduct
- 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… Contradiction
- 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… Age
- 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… Attended
- 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… Been
- 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… Age
- 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… Armies
- 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… All
- 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… Approved
- I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720. Born
- 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… Care