William Penn Quotes About Suffering
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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