Top 38 Elias Hicks Quotes
#1. He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#2. I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. 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
#4. I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
Meryl Streep
#5. 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
#6. You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,
Elias Hicks
#7. 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
#8. He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY.
THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE
Nicanor Parra
#9. Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
Elias Hicks
#10. 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
#11. The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
Elias Hicks
#12. 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.
Elias Hicks
#14. And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Elias Hicks
#15. 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
#17. In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks
#18. To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.
Elias Hicks
#19. They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
Steve Martin
#20. This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image - an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator: - thus did the world once seem to me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. 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
#23. Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Arthur Helps
#24. We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
Elias Hicks
#25. To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
Elias Hicks
#26. 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
#27. I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.
Susan Bysiewicz
#28. It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.
Elias Hicks
#29. 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
#30. The key to all strange things is in thy heart ... / My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
Countee Cullen
#31. Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Elias Hicks
#32. 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
#33. You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
Elias Hicks
#34. Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.
George W. Bush
#35. Bridget felt like she'd been sucked into a game of Clue. Delaney did it. In the football field. With an iron bar. Again, she had to force the words to die on her tongue.
Samantha Blake
#36. And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
Elias Hicks
#37. 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
#38. I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
Anson Mount
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