Quaker Quotes

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

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Kindness
  • Neglect

• The best recreation is to do good.

  

  William Penn
  • Philanthropy
  • Recreation
  • Quaker

• 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
  • War
  • Prison
  • Killing

• Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Life
  • Up
  • Life is

• 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
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• 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
  • Behinds
  • Careful

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

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Knows
  • Blame

• If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Jew
  • Quaker

• 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
  • School
  • Games
  • Shows

• Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.

  

  Caroline Emelia Stephen
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• 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
  • Heart
  • Silence
  • Helping