13 Quotes by Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual leader and one of the most prominent figures in the early colonial history of America. She is best known for her role in challenging the religious and social norms of her time and advocating for religious freedom and women’s rights. Hutchinson’s outspoken views and her unconventional behavior brought her into conflict with the authorities, and she was eventually exiled from Massachusetts and banished from the Puritan community. Despite her persecution, Anne Hutchinson’s legacy as a pioneer of religious and civil liberty has endured, and she remains an inspiration to many today. (Bio)
Anne Hutchinson Quotes
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another… But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.
I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand. (Meaning)
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. (Meaning)
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
I have been guilty of wrong thinking.
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God’s ordinance.
― Anne Hutchinson Quotes
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