William Penn Quotes, Thoughts and images

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

Never despise what you don't understand.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Let us see what love can do.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

He that lives in love lives in God.

The best recreation is to do good.

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

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

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

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.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.