Sentences with phrase «earliest quakers»

, these earliest Quakers recognized the Inner Light in all the people they so examined.

There are a lot of stories about the earliest Quakers going to the ends of the Earth, to a variety of peoples called «heathen», and checking to see if they, too, had the Inner Light.

Most generally, the term «conservative» means that I find myself more often than not appreciating the earliest Quakers» insights into the nature of faith, church, and society.

These early Quakers were Puritans indeed.

The early Quakers, for example, had hard battles to wage against the worldliness and insincerity of the ecclesiastical Christianity of their time.

Perhaps it is time the JR Foundation re-learnt and re-aquired the skills of the early Quakers and then promoted them, there would be less in - equality.

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The Quakers are heirs of the early impulse in this direction.

Religion was also behind slavery (based on Genesis 9) and repression of women (most religions do) also early in many states» history was the prohibition of Jews, Catholics, and Quakers to hold office; almost certainly a decision based on religion wouldn't you say?

Many of the early colonies were founded on religious grounds: Virginia: Anglican Massachusetts: Puritan Rhode Island: religious tolerance Connecticut, New York, New Jersey: Dutch Reformed Calvinists Maryland: Catholics Pennsylvania: religious tolerance (managed by Quakers)

Among the earliest opponents of slavery were the Quakers.

The Monteverde area is the settlement location of a group of Quakers who arrived in the early 1950's.

Very early I was trained originally by the Quakers when I was in college in mediation, and thought, boy, this is what I want to do, and that was in the late»80s, but there really was no online dispute resolution until really the late»90s, and that was when I realized, oh, my gosh, I love technology and I love dispute resolution.