We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We’re starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We’re spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.
Fisher Ames (Congressman/Founding Father, 1758 – 1808)
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 (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
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 (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
William Penn (Real Estate Entrepreneur 1644 – 1718)