Voices and influences
George Fox
The shoemaker's apprentice who walked out of every church in England looking for a living voice.
Summary
This site quotes George Fox 4 times across 4 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1624 to 1691, English.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 1 of 4.
George Fox
- Lived
- 1624 to 1691
- Nation
- English
- Tradition
- Quaker
4 of 4 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because George Fox died in 1691 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“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 every one…”
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Matthew 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. BSB
“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. In that also I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings.”
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John 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. BSB
“There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy Condition: And when I heard it, my Heart did leap for Joy.”
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin. BSB
“I told them, I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the lust, according to James’s doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.”
Journal, eighth edition (1901), 1650, at Derby, pages 68 to 69
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James 4:1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes George Fox 4 times across 4 books.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
George Fox left home at nineteen and spent four years walking from town to town, asking ministers questions none of them could answer. He recorded the turn in his journal: when every human help was gone, he heard a voice that said there is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to thy condition. From 1647 he preached that Christ teaches His people Himself, and the Friends who gathered around him refused to take oaths, refused to remove their hats to social superiors, and let women preach — each of which was, at the time, a crime or close to it. He was jailed eight times, roughly six years in total, beaten by mobs more than once, and traveled to the West Indies, America and Holland. Friends' distinctive teaching on the inward light set them apart from the Puritans around them, but Fox's insistence that faith is a living encounter rather than an inherited form outlasted the quarrel.
4 quotations across 4 books
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