William Bradford Quotes

#1. But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

William Bradford

#2. The LORD is the help of my life

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#3. Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

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#4. Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

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#5. The loss of ... honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

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#6. All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

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#7. The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

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#8. Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many ...

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#9. Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

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#10. We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

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#11. As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

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#12. And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

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