Author: Elias Hicks

Quotes

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 know if we will.

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 know if we will.

- Elias Hicks

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

- Elias Hicks

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 of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

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 of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

- Elias Hicks

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

- Elias Hicks

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 proper Messiah.

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 proper Messiah.

- Elias Hicks

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

- Elias Hicks

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 Father would send.

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 Father would send.

- Elias Hicks

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 natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

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 natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

- Elias Hicks

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