Elias Hicks Quotes

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• What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our…
• But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be…
• Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons…
• And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe…
• You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,
• I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and…
• People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
• ...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside…
• The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
• And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our…
• O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the…
• We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of…
• And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them;…
• There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their…
• That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should…
• It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him…
• We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God…
• And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by…
• You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
• Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

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