George Fox Quotes

If but one man or woman were raised by his power, to stand and live in the same spirit that the prophets and apostles were in who gave forth the scriptures, that man or woman should shake all the country in their profession for ten miles round.

Take heed of pleasures, and prize your time now while you have it; do not spend it in pleasures or earthliness. The time may come that you will say; you had time, when it is past.

There is your teacher, the light, obeying it;

there is your condemnation, disobeying it.

If you hearken to the light in you,

it will not allow you to conform to the evil ways,

customs, fashions, delights, and vanities of the world;

Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you go, so that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one.

"You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God?"

"Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?"

"Keep within. And when they say, 'lo here', or 'lo there' is Christ; go not forth; for Christ is within you. And they are seducers and antichrists, which draw your minds out from the teachings within you."

"It is said by the professors: 'There is no order among you,' but I say the order of God is a mystery. Its order will stand when all of theirs is gone. The cry is: 'There is no government amongst you!' Is there not? Yes, the government of Christ."

"Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you."

"The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts . . . his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them."

"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."

"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness."

"One man raised by God's power to stand and live in the same spirit the apostle and prophets were in, can shake the country for ten miles around."

"I heard a voice which said, `There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition', and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy."

"Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play."

"The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts . . . his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them."