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George Fox Quotes

1624–1691 England

George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, Christian mystic, religious reformer and itinerant preacher, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. Born in Leicestershire, he lived through the social upheaval of the English Civil War.

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Also known as: Fox, George

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For I saw in that Light and Spirit, which was before Scripture was given forth and which led the holy men of God to give them forth, that all must come to that Spirit, if they would know God, or Christ, or the Scriptures aright, which they that gave them forth were led and taught by.

Journal (1694)

I declared to the people the Gospel, the Truth, the light of Jesus Christ in their own hearts, which he had enlightened them that they might all come to, that let them see all that ever they had done, and said, and acted, and that would be their teacher when they were about their labours.

Journal (1694)

I saw that the grace of God, which brings salvation, had appeared to all men, and that the manifestation of the Spirit of God was given to every man to profit withal. I saw that Christ had died for all men, and was a propitiation for all, and had enlightened all men and women with his divine and saving light, and that none could be a true believer but who believed in it.

Journal (1694)

In fairs also, and in markets, I was made to declare against their deceitful merchandise and cheating and cozening, warning all to deal justly, to speak the truth, to let their 'yea' be 'yea', and their 'nay' be 'nay'; and to do unto others as they would have others do unto them, and forewarning them of the great and terrible day of the Lord which would come upon them all.

Journal (1694)

I said, ' Nay', but if he meant the one baptism with the spirit into one body, that we owned, but to throw a little water in a child's face and say it was baptised (or christened) there was no Scripture for that.

Journal (1694)

For the right joining in marriage is the work of the Lord only, and not the priests’ or magistrates’; for it is God’s ordinance and not man’s; and therefore Friends cannot consent that they should join them together: for we marry none; it is the Lord’s work, and we are but witnesses.

Epistle 264 (1669)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Fox (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.