13 Quotes by William Bradford

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...

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.

The LORD is the help of my life.

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

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

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

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.

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

Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.