Knowledge that doesn’t need to be taught

“Everyone who believes in the existence of God attributes to him justice, mercy, and love, and that he is unchangeable in his nature, and incapable of partiality. Hence he must—and no doubt has—given to every man and woman a complete and sufficient rule of faith and practice without the aid of books or men. And [God] hath so ordered, in the course of events, that the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing… the more instruction and help they afford one another.”

— Elias Hicks, 1818
Quaker minister

Today’s Invitation

Live up to the guidance and teaching of the Inward Anointing.

This Week’s Query

How do you stay teachable?

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  • Elias Hicks (1748 – 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted doctrines deemed unorthodox by many which led to lasting controversy, and caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends. Elias Hicks was the older cousin of the painter Edward Hicks.

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