Why should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
Fisher Ames (Congressman/Founding Father, 1758 – 1808)
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
Fisher Ames (Congressman/Founding Father, 1758 – 1808)
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble….In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.
Fisher Ames (Congressman/Founding Father, 1758 – 1808)
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)