"You know that we have a great variety……" — Elias Hicks
"You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own 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 Desires Quotes
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
— Mortimer Adler
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