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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.

— George Fox Journal (1694)

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

Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.

Oh, no, it is not the Scriptures, and was commanded to tell them God did not dwell in temples made with hands.

Friends, meet together and know one another in that which is eternal, which was before the world was.

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Your teacher is within you; look not forth; it will teach you lying in bed, going abroad, to shun all occasion of sin and evil.

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