 | Leo Rosten - 1975 - 678 pages
...with him in 1650, Fox wrote in his Journal: "I told him I knew from whence all wars arose and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." During World War I, the right of conscientious objectors was not recognized and many Friends went to... | |
 | C. H. Mike Yarrow - 1978 - 346 pages
...when George Fox was offered release from prison if he would join the army, he refused. "I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." 11 The refusal to participate in wars was first given a public corporate expression in 1660 in a declaration... | |
 | Douglas Van Steere - 1984 - 354 pages
...compliments, and asked me if I would not take up arms for the Commonwealth against the King. But I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars, and I knew from whence all wars did rise, from the lust according to James's doctrine.4 Still they... | |
 | Joseph Fahey, Richard Armstrong - 1992 - 500 pages
...them, I knew from whence all wars arose, even from lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars. But they courted me to accept their offer, and thought I did but compliment them. But I told them,... | |
 | H. Larry Ingle - 1996 - 420 pages
...a useful end, proffered him the position. But he turned them down with the classic comment that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." Still they pressed, pleading that the offer was made out of love and kindness, until Fox, considering... | |
 | Lisa Sowle Cahill - 2006 - 292 pages
...is impossible in the kingdom. The Quaker attitude to war is summed up in Fox's declaration that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars."108 The Rules 101. Journal of George Fox, 128-29; cf. TC Jones, Fox's Attitude Toward War, 24-25.... | |
 | Stephen Blake Boyd, W. Merle Longwood, Mark William Muesse - 1996 - 336 pages
...nonviolence; in refusing military service, George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of Quakerism, declared that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." 6 Not eoincidentally, early Friends emphasized equality of the sexes. Though later generations of Quakers... | |
 | Mark W. Janis, Carolyn Maree Evans - 1999 - 544 pages
...the founder of the Society of Friends, refused in 1647 to take up arms in the English civil war: 'I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.' Fox's pacifism, rooted in a conviction of the fundamental contradiction between the spirit of Christ... | |
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I told them I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars. 
