Stephen Grellet? Eva Rose York? A. B. Hegeman? William Penn? John Wesley? John Townsend? Eliza M. Hickok? Henry Drummond? Quakers’ Motto? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Our time on Earth is remarkably brief. We should not hesitate to express compassion and empathy toward others. This notion has been expressed as follows: I expect to pass …
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Quote Origin: Few Souls Are Saved After the First Twenty Minutes of a Sermon
Mark Twain? John Wesley? John M. Bartholomew? Arthur Twining Hadley? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Lengthy orations on spiritual topics are unlikely to change the views of resistant audience members. Here are three versions of a pertinent adage: This saying has been credited to humorist Mark Twain and 18th-century English evangelist John Wesley. Would you …
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Quote Origin: Do All the Good You Can; In All the Ways You Can
John Wesley? Nicholas Murray? Laban Clark? Kirwan? Dwight L. Moody? Tombstone in Shrewsbury? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: John Wesley was a prominent English religious figure whose teachings inspired Methodism. The following elaborate injunction is sometimes called “John Wesley’s Rule of Life”: Do all the good you can,By all the means you can,In all the …
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