Quote by John Woolman
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. – John Woolman

Other quotes by John Woolman

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. – John Woolman

Category:
Faith
Read Quote

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. – John Woolman

Category:
Happiness
Read Quote

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. – John Woolman

Category:
respect
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as theres bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. – Karen Armstrong

Category:
Religion

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. – Laurence Sterne

Category:
Religion

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Religion

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. – Stokely Carmichael

Category:
power

Treat the patient, not the Xray. – James M. Hunter

Category:
Medical

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. – Helen Thomas

Category:
Peace

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although its also got the horror element. – Alex Winter

Category:
movies