Quotes about Quakers
Also besides these teachings of God in His word, the Lord made use of two things to confirm me in this truth; the one was the errors of the Quakers and the other was the guilt of sin; for as the Quakers did oppose this truth, so God did the more confirm me in it, by leading me into the scripture that did wonderfully maintain it.
- John Bunyan
The earliest opponents of slavery in America were Christians, mostly Quakers and evangelical Christians. They took seriously the biblical idea that we are all equal in the eyes of God, and interpreted it to mean that no person has the right to rule another person without his consent.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
- Harriet Tubman
They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.
- Isabel Allende
They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
- Herman Melville
Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested, he says, smiling blandly, and more arrests are anticipated.
- Margaret Atwood
First, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be restricted to the apostles, or those under the immediate inspiration of the Holy Ghost, then that of baptizing should be so too; and every denomination of Christians, except the Quakers, do wrong in baptizing with water at all.
- William Carey