Come to know the word of God in yourself

Dwell everyone in your own light, so will every one have an ear kept open to hear the bridegroom’s voice. He that is born of god knoweth the deciding betwixt the good motions and the bad, and so cometh to know the word of God in himself, and so he beareth not witness of himself, but of the father who hath sent him, and so it is no more I but the spirit of my father which speaketh in me.”

— Dorothy White, 1660s
Quaker writer

Bear not witness of yourself, but of the Spirit.

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  • Dorothy White

    Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686) was an English Quaker and writer of religious pamphlets. She was briefly imprisoned for interrupting a local Anglican service. She is said to have been the most prolific female Quaker pamphleteer of the 17th century, contributing twenty texts.

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