"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often……" — Elias Hicks
"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions."
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Elias Hicks
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23 Quotes by Elias Hicks
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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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