Lucretia Mott. 1793-1880... |
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Page 20 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 15 - Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure In heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for...
Page 44 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Page 38 - I desire to escape the narrow walls of a particular church, and to live under the open sky, in the broad light, looking far and wide, seeing with my own eyes, hearing with my own ears, and following truth meekly, but resolutely, however arduous or solitary be the path in which she leads.
Page 30 - County told me once of his first hearing her in the early days when she was almost unknown. . . . He had had a dreary time with the Friends that day, but at last a woman stood up he had not seen before, whose presence touched him with strange, new expectations. She looked, he said, as if she had no great hold on life, and began to speak in low tones, with just a touch of hesitation as of one who is feeling after her ihought, and there was a tremor as if she felt the burden of the Spirit.
Page 62 - We have met together for the achievement of an enterprise, without which, that of our fathers is incomplete, and which, for its magnitude, solemnity, and probable results upon the destiny of the world, as far transcends theirs, as moral truth does physical force.
Page 32 - I love to remember," he writes, "with what a tender pathos (Lucretia Mott) opened her heart to me, when it seemed almost like death to leave my old mother church, of the trouble it was to her when she had to do this in the days of Elias Hicks — to find she must part with old friends for the truth, and have the meeting-houses closed to her in which she had loved to meet them, and to suffer reproach that she might be true to her own soul.
Page 63 - Advocate ! a fairer wreath be thine, Base Envy cannot soil, nor Time destroy; Thou art enlisted in a cause divine, Which yet shall fill all earth and heaven with joy. To calm the passions of a hostile world ; To make content and happiness increase; In every clime to see that flag unfurled, Long since uplifted by the Prince of Peace: This is thy soul's desire, thy being's aim, No barrier can impede, no opposition tame.
Page 31 - I once heard such an outpouring. It was at a wood-meeting up among the hills. She was well on in years then, but the old fire still burned clear, and God's breath touched her out of heaven and she prophesied. . . . For two hours she held the multitude spell-bound, waiting on her words. ... I have said she prophesied. No other term would answer to her speech. Her eyes had seen the glory of the coming of the Lord...
Page 19 - We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.