William Penn Quotes

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Evil

• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
  • Prayer

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Powerful
  • Organization

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Sister

• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Prayer
  • Top

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Live
  • Evil
  • Democracy

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Together
  • Formal

• He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

  

  Quintilian
  • Opportunity
  • Evil
  • Only

• 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Ignore

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • America
  • Culture
  • Style

• Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Company

• Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Grief

• History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Up
  • She
  • History

• God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

  

  William Penn
  • Evil
  • Prayer
  • Temptation