26+ Anne Hutchinson Quotes On Education, Slavery And Religion

Anne Hutchinson was an American clergyman who was a Puritan spiritual advisor and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was a midwife and healer and her religious convictions were at odds with the Puritan leaders of the colony. She was eventually tried and convicted, leading to her banishment from the colony and the start of her journey to Rhode Island. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Anne Hutchinson on education, slavery, religion.

Top 10 Anne Hutchinson Quotes

1. 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.
2. I have been guilty of wrong thinking.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
6. Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
7. I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
8. 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.
9. Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.
10. If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

Anne Hutchinson Short Quotes

• I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.
• Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.
• Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
• I desire to know wherefore I am banished?
• An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

Anne Hutchinson Quotes About Lord

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. — Anne Hutchinson

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence. — Anne Hutchinson

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. — Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson Famous Quotes And Sayings

You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. — Anne Hutchinson

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? — Anne Hutchinson

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway. — Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state. — Anne Hutchinson

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth. — Anne Hutchinson

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. — Anne Hutchinson

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. — Anne Hutchinson

In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only? — Anne Hutchinson

Life Lessons by Anne Hutchinson

1. Anne Hutchinson taught that all individuals have the right to interpret scripture for themselves, and that religious authority should not be blindly accepted.
2. She also advocated for religious tolerance and the separation of church and state, challenging the Puritan establishment of her time.
3. Her example shows us the importance of standing up for our beliefs, even in the face of opposition, and of respecting the beliefs of others.