Margaret Fell Quotes on God
Margaret Fell was an English philosopher, religious organizer, and the principal early architect of the Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers, alongside her second husband George Fox. This page collects quotes attributed to Margaret Fell on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Margaret Fell:
“It is not the custom of men but the Spirit of God that authorizes who may speak.”
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Attributed to Margaret Fell:
“Women's speaking is justified, proved, and allowed of by the Scriptures.”
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Attributed to Margaret Fell:
“The Light of Christ is in every man and every woman, and waits for the speech of either.”
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Attributed to Margaret Fell:
“Outward forms of worship are the husks; the kernel is the inward listening.”
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Attributed to Margaret Fell:
“What is written by the Spirit, the Spirit also enables to speak.”
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“Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.”
Recipe to prevent the cold of January from utterly destroying life" (30 January 1841), quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson , p. 97