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John Woolman Quotes: I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.
         

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.


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To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.



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Conduct is more convincing than language.



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Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.



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Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.



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I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.





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