William Penn Quotes About Quakers

Quotes about: Quakers

• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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

  William Penn

  Mean, Evil, May

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

• True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

  William Penn

  Men, Doe, World

  William Penn (2001). “No Cross, No Crown”, p.42, Destiny Image Publishers

• The best recreation is to do good.

  William Penn

  Philanthropy, Quaker, Recreation

  William Penn (1853). “No Cross, No Crown ...”, p.211

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

  William Penn

  Men, Blame, Quaker

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.299

• 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.

  William Penn

  Missing, Haste, May

  William Penn (1838). “The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers”, p.85

• 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.

  William Penn

  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

• That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.

  William Penn

  Men, Names, People

  William Penn (1857). “Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers: Written in testimony to the present dispensation of God through them to the world that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-inclined encouraged, and the truth, and its innocent friends rightly represented”

• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Forgiveness, Winning, Forgiving

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

• I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

  William Penn

  Kindness, World, Quaker

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