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  • Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

    Missing   Haste   May  
    William Penn (1838). “The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers”, p.85
  • I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

  • The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

  • For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

    Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX
  • My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

  • However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

    School   Quaker   My Time  
  • I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

  • Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit arises purely and stilly in the heart, and gives perfect evidence and full testimony of itself; so that there needs to be no doubting nor questioning of its motion; for it shows forth itself with full assurance of its own will.

    Running   Heart   Perfect  
  • The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

    Spiritual   Men   Light  
    William Penn (1875). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts”, p.34
  • If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.

    Hate   Believe   Men  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Interviews”
  • Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

    Luxury   Growth   Purpose  
  • This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.

    Spring   Heart   People  
  • However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

    School   Years   Twelve  
  • There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

  • NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

    Quaker  
    Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation
  • We pass through this world but once.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company
  • For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

    Heart   People   Evil  
    Joseph Bancroft, Robert Barclay (1874). “A Persuasive to Unity: Setting Forth the Ground of that Source of Comfort in which Ground of a Clean Heart and a Right Spirit Men May Grow in Good and Firmly Support Each Other as Living Stones in the Temple of God”, p.124
  • Whatever you do, you need courage.

  • A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

    Mean   Evil   May  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation
  • The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

    Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins
  • Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

    "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.
  • Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.

    War   Men   Ties  
  • Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.21
  • Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

  • We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

  • Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

    Men   Blame   Quaker  
    William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.299
  • I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

  • To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

    John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.326
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