However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school. — Brian De Palma
I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers — Woody Allen
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. — David Icke
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged. — Rumi
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. — Henry David Thoreau
Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free. — Merle Haggard
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. — Martin Luther
The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. — Anonymous
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground. — Rosa Parks
I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. — Confucius
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. — Richard Rodney Bennett
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. — John Harvey Kellogg
Short Quaker Quotes
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. — William Penn
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. — Harriet Tubman
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. — Woody Allen
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. — Lionel Blue
The best recreation is to do good. — William Penn
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now. — William Penn
Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness. — Kyan Douglas
As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet." — Eric Butterworth
If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker. — Albert Einstein
Whatever you do, you need courage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself. — Bayard Rustin
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. — Richard J. Foster
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not — Elizabeth Fry
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.' — Lucretia Mott
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise
I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively. — James Turrell
To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives. — John Woolman
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself. — Ram Dass
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. — George Orwell
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred. — Jean Toomer
There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities. — Kenneth E. Boulding
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. — Bayard Rustin
For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it. — Elise M. Boulding
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. — Terry Pratchett
Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’ — Bayard Rustin
Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world. — Thomas Raymond Kelly
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 living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition. — John Woolman
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. — Donella Meadows
Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love. — Rufus Jones
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life. — A. J. Muste
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man. — Bayard Rustin
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. — Bonnie Raitt
Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement. — Bonnie Raitt
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me. — Philip Yancey
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. — Rufus Jones
There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself. — Rufus Jones
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. — Anita Roddick
While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at sundry times), my position regarding their religious views was, "They will answer to God, at their own peril, in the great day approaching [that is, the day of divine judgment]." — Roger Williams
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. — John Wesley
Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still. — Caroline Emelia Stephen
So upright Quakers please both man and God. — Alexander Pope
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