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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In Quaker doctrine, a divine presence in the human soul believed to be an enlightening and guiding force.
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- noun a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
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St. Teresa to the formation of an ideal religious family; Fox to the proclaiming of a world-religion in which all men should be guided by the Inner Light; Florence Nightingale to battle with officials, vermin, dirt, and disease in the soldiers 'hospitals;
Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908
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And he had this woman, who was a Friend, and who walked by the Inner Light, and in outer charity, if ever a woman did, to keep his house.
Real Folks 1865
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This was the instinct which drove St. Francis of Assisi to the practical experience of that poverty which he recognised as the highest wisdom; St. Catherine of Siena from contemplation to politics; Joan of Arc to the salvation of France; St. Teresa to the formation of an ideal religious family; Fox to the proclaiming of a world-religion in which all men should be guided by the Inner Light; Florence Nightingale to battle with officials, vermin, dirt, and disease in the soldiers 'hospitals; Octavia Hill to make in
Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915
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