Brethren Quote by John Woolman Download Open image “To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.” — John Woolman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brethren Darkness Learning Mankind Nature of man Understanding
To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment. — Mooji Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way… — John Green Copy Share Image
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
Your belief in yourselves is the only thing that will make a difference and create an ability for you to see for yourselves, that… — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service. — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Now I find that in a state of pure obedience the mind learns contentment in appearing weak and foolish to that wisdom which is… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits… — Poemen Copy Share Image
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested,… — Ezra Hall Gillett Copy Share Image
Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image