Quaker religion which he founded is something which it is impossible to overpraise. In a day of shams, it was a religion of veracity rooted in spiritual inwardness, and a return to something more like the original gospel truth than men had ever known... Quakerism and Politics: Essays - Page 181by Isaac Sharpless - 1905 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
| William James - Conversion - 1902 - 558 pages
...there can be no better one than is furnished by the person of George Fox. The Quaker religion which he founded is something which it is impossible to overpraise....spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind was unsound. Everyone who confronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers,... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1904 - 940 pages
...the judgment of a scholar like Professor William James ( The Varieties of Religious Experience, 7) : The Quaker religion which he [George Fox] founded...spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind was unsound. ISAAC SHARPLESS. South Carolina as a Royal Province, ijiy-ljfd. By W. ROY SMITH, Ph.D., Associate in... | |
| Theology - 1924 - 762 pages
...man." From the standpoint of practical ethical life we can hope William James was correct when he said, "So far as our Christian sects today are evolving...which Fox and the early Quakers so long ago assumed." Imperialistic America. — Those who have thought of imperialism as a typical European malady will... | |
| Mary Agnes Best - Quakers - 1925 - 400 pages
...said William James, "in a day of shams, was a religion of verity rooted in spiritual inwardness. ... So far as our Christian sects to-day are evolving...which Fox and the early Quakers so long ago assumed." Unfortunately, says Buckle in his History of Civilization, European governments are always meddling... | |
| Frank Ballard - Christianity - 1927 - 340 pages
...was a religion of veracity, rooted in spiritual inwardness, and a return to something more like an original Gospel truth than men had ever known in England....which Fox and the early Quakers so long ago assumed." It must suffice here to think first upon the points of likeness, and then those of difference, between... | |
| Leo Rosten - Religion - 1975 - 678 pages
...gospel truth than men had ever known in England. So far as our Christian sects today are evolving, they are simply reverting in essence to the position...which Fox and the early Quakers so long ago assumed. [RPM] Quakerism arose in England and America about 1650, was persecuted bitterly, responded zealously,... | |
| 219 pages
...there can be no better one than is furnished by the person of George Fox. The Quaker religion which he founded is something which it is impossible to overpraise....spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind was unsound. Everyone who confronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers,... | |
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