Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
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The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
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Birth: | July, 1624 |
Death: | 13th January, 1691 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Founder, Leader, Preacher |
George Fox was born in Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England. He was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.
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