Rufus Jones quotes

Rufus Jones quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

#Circles Quotes #Events Quotes #Quiet Quotes
“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 Quotes #Light Quotes #Hands Quotes
“There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.”
-- Rufus Jones

#Finding Yourself Quotes #Way Quotes #Losing Yourself Quotes
“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 Quotes #Men Quotes #Ties Quotes
“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 Quotes #Unjust Quotes #Economic Quotes
“There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.”
-- Rufus Jones

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

#Intelligent Quotes #Thug Quotes #People Quotes

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