Quote

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

William Penn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
Author
Entrepreneur
Philosopher
Politician
Theologian
London
England
William Penn
Mountain
Faith
Like
Diligence
Mountains
Concentration
Remove
Patience

More quotes by William Penn

Image
He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
William Penn
Image
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
Image
Perfect love casteth out fear.
William Penn
Image
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
Image
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
William Penn
Image
Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
William Penn
Image
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
Image
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
William Penn
Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
William Penn
Image
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
Image
Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.
William Penn
Image
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
William Penn
Image
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
Image
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
William Penn
Image
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
William Penn
Image
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
William Penn
Image
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
William Penn
Image
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
William Penn
Image
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
Image
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
William Penn