When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is forbidden to call down fire from heaven, that is, to procure or inflict any corporal punishment upon offenders in religious doctrine or practice, remembering Christ's admonition that He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at sundry times), my position regarding their religious views was, "They will answer to God, at their own peril, in the great day approaching [that is, the day of divine judgment]."