John Marrant Quotes

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I saw my call to the ministry fuller and clearer; had a feeling concern for the salvation of my countrymen: I carried them constantly in the arms of prayer and faith to the throne of grace, and had continual sorrow in my heart for my brethren, for my kinsmen, according to the flesh.

John Marrant

Man is a wonderful creature, and not undeservedly said to be a little world, a world within himself, and containing whatever is found in the Creator.

John Marrant

I now and then found, that my affections to my family and country were not dead; they were sometimes very sensibly felt, and at last strengthened into an invincible desire of returning home.

John Marrant

Slavery... is not a just cause of our being despised; for if we search history, we shall not find a nation on earth [that] has at some period or other of their existence been in slavery, from the Jews down to the English nation under many Emperors, Kings and Princes.

John Marrant