That of God Quotes
George Fox Epistle 155
And every one keep in the measure of the Life of God, and see that there be no strife nor presumption among you; but all serve one another in love, and let that of God guide every one of you, in which ye may have unity one with another and with God.
George Fox An Epistle to All People on the Earth
and there is no one who holds the truth but in unrighteousness until he comes to that of God manifest in him; and so that of God manifested in him, leads his mind up to God, he comes to the quiet and peaceable life, and comes to retain God in his knowledge, and his spirit is quieted, and he comes to hold the truth in righteousness, and his mind is not reprobated; and such shall find mercy of God, when their minds are guided up unto God and their spirits and minds are quieted in silent waiting upon God, and in one half hour have more peace and satisfaction, than they have had from all other teachers of the world all their life time;
Journal of George Fox Volume 1 and Volume 2
How are the wise men turned backward! View thy ways! take notice with whom thou hast taken part. That of God in thy conscience will tell thee.
Elizabeth Fry
I looked not to myself, but to that within me, that has to my admiration proved to be my present help, and enabled me to do what I believe of myself I could not have done.
Worship Pendle Hill Pamphlet #51 by John Woolman
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.
The Practice of The Love of God Pendle Hill Pamphlet #374 by Kenneth Boulding
Mind that which is pure in you to guide you to God,” says George Fox, and good advice it is, for as we find that within ourselves which is worthy of high love–the clear thought, the generous impulse, the rush of unity that binds us to the suffering of all creation–so indeed are we guided to God.
But it is not enough to look merely within. The God who is to be the object of our highest love cannot be a fragmentary part, however deep, of our own little personalities. “That which is pure within us” is not so much God as the family likeness printed in us. It guides us to God, but we shall be deluded if we seek God only in our own soul. The God whom we love and worship is not a figment of our personal imagination, but is the creator of the universe. We seek God, therefore, not only in ourselves but in God’s other children. In a large family some are more and some are less like their parents, and so in the human world we see a better likeness of our other parent in some than in others. There are some who live close to God and daily take on more of the divine likeness, while others busy themselves with affairs of dust and continually dilute their heavenly part with dross. Let us then mind that which is pure, not only in ourselves, but in those greater than us, and it will lead us to God.
Quakerism of the Future: Mystical, Prophetic & Evangelical Pendle Hill Pamphlet #194 by John Yungblut
From its earliest associations with the Messiah myth in the Old Testament, the Christ myth has always had a life of its own. I see Jesus as the greatest of the Jewish mystics and prophets. But the Christ for me is God in man, “the Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” The Christ is the Son of Man in the new sense of man’s successor, the new man that is to be. The Christ is the archetypal image of perfect manhood; the Christ is the Inward Light. This Christ is neither male nor female as God is neither male nor female. This Christ for me shone forth in Jesus of Nazareth more brilliantly than in any person of whom I have any knowledge in the past or present. All other images and perceptions of the Christ must for me be trued up to the Christ I perceive in the Jesus of the gospels.
This Christ is that of God in you and me and we can equate this Christ with the Holy spirit and with the Light and the Seed and other metaphors for indwelling divinity. But though this Christ was revealed most fully in Jesus, we must not think any longer of Jesus and the Christ as identical and coextensive and coterminous.
The Christ myth must be allowed to evolve to meet the demands of our new perspectives. I can be Christ-centered as well as Jesus-centered, if I may be allowed to interpret Christ in this way as the Logos, the Word, God who indwells in all men. I want to become increasingly attentive to this Christ who is in me and in some mysterious sense is me. It is not Jesus who lives in me but the Christ who lived in Jesus and also lives in me.
