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Though I felt uneasy at the thought of writing an instrument of slavery... through weakness I gave way and wrote it; but. said before my master and the Friend that I believed slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet. I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience.
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Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment.
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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.
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To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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John Woolman
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Born:
October 19, 1720
Died:
October 7, 1772
(aged 51)
Bio:
John Woolman was a North American merchant, tailor, journalist, and itinerant Quaker preacher, and an early abolitionist in the colonial era.
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