“The Love I bear to the Souls of all Men makes me willing to undergo whatever can be inflicted on me.”
— Elizabeth Hooton
Early Quaker minister
Love humanity fervently.
When have you made sacrifices to follow the will of God, as early Quakers did?
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Elizabeth Hooton (née Carrier) (1600 – 1672) was was among the first, perhaps the very first, to be convinced by the teachings of George Fox. Some sources indicate, however, that Fox actually clarified some of his beliefs from Hooton's mentoring of him. She was the first female Quaker minister, and one of the Valiant Sixty.
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