Elias Hicks

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,

— Elias Hicks

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no…

— Elias Hicks

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for…

— Elias Hicks

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on…

— Elias Hicks

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

— Elias Hicks

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

— Elias Hicks

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed…

— Elias Hicks

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so…

— Elias Hicks

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has…

— Elias Hicks

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

— Elias Hicks

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make…

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And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make…

— Elias Hicks

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the…

— Elias Hicks

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

— Elias Hicks

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that…

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That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading,…

— Elias Hicks

And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love,…

— Elias Hicks

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

— Elias Hicks

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we…

— Elias Hicks

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on…

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...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and…

— Elias Hicks

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us…

— Elias Hicks

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the…

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There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that…

— Elias Hicks