Elias Hicks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Father #Son #Men
That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
-- Elias Hicks

#Home #Light #Desire
To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.
-- Elias Hicks

#Jew #Saviour
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

#Jesus #Father #Blessed
And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, is suited to every individual according to his condition.
-- Elias Hicks

#Heart #Law #Soul
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
-- Elias Hicks

#Blades #Grass #Blades Of Grass
...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another.
-- Elias Hicks

#Teaching #Men #Hands
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
-- Elias Hicks

#Ignorance #Men #Talking
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

#Eugenics #Delight #Mysterious
You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,
-- Elias Hicks

#Devil #Without You #Tempted
And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.
-- Elias Hicks

#Jesus #Believe #Miracle
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

#Heart #Rebel #Sin
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

#Encouragement #Heart #Might

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