Richard Allen Quotes

• Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)

  Richard Allen

  Mistake, Giving, Learn From Your Mistakes

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• The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

  Richard Allen

  Strength, God, Christian

  Absalom Jones, Richard Allen (1993). “A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of Some Censures Thrown Upon Them in Some Late Publications”, Eastern Acorn Press

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• I didn't accept it. I received it.

  Richard Allen

  Smart, Accepting

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• Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

  Richard Allen

  Successful, Blessing, America

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• Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

  Richard Allen

  Hands, White, People

  Richard Allen (1880). “The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is Annexed, the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793 : with an Address to the People of Color in the United States”

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• According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

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  Sky, Tree, World

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.1, The Miegunyah Press

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• Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

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  Australia, Tree, Treasure

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press

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• The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

  Richard Allen

  Blue, Sky, White

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

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