Author: Elias Hicks

Quotes

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

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

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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