Rufus Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.
-- Rufus Jones

#Adversity #Dark #Night
I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.
-- Rufus Jones

#Circles #Events #Quiet
Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.
-- Rufus Jones

#Heart #Light #Hands
There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.
-- Rufus Jones

#Finding Yourself #Way #Losing Yourself
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.
-- Rufus Jones

#War #Men #Ties
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.
-- Rufus Jones

#Fighting #Unjust #Economic
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
-- Rufus Jones

#Faith #People #Burned
Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
-- Rufus Jones

#Intelligent #Thug #People

Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
The reward of suffering is experience
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

Rufus Jones famous quotes

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