"And if we are in this state, if……" — Elias Hicks
"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 it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires."
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Elias Hicks
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23 Quotes by Elias Hicks
Elias Hicks has 23 quotes on this site.
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What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come…
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But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in…
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Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his…
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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…
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You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,
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I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all…
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People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least…
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...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing…
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The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
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And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in…
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O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that…
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We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that…
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More Carnal Quotes
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
— Samuel Butler
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman,…
— Richard Sibbes
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Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a…
— Richard Baxter
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I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it…
— Sam Kinison
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God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too…
— John Flavel
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It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark…
— John Owen
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Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.
— Unknown Author
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within,…
— H. L. Mencken
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