"We learn this by the precepts that Jesus……" — Elias Hicks
"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 cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man."
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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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