Rufus Jones Professions : Drummer Born : May 27, 1936 Died : April 25, 1990 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Rufus Jones I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. Rufus Jones circles events quiet There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself. Rufus Jones losing-yourself finding-yourself way 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 light heart hands 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 dark night 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 ties men war 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 economic unjust fighting There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. Rufus Jones burned faith people Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. Rufus Jones thug intelligent people When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory. Rufus Jones will victory done war Similar Authors Buddy Rich drummer Brian Viglione drummer Brian Blade drummer Aynsley Dunbar drummer Billy Higgins drummer Billy Cobham drummer All Authors
