Anne Hutchinson Quotes


"I have been guilty of wrong thinking."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Thinking, Wrong)

"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Court, Providence)

"Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you."
- Anne Hutchinson
"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."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Yield)

"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
"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Conscience, Saints)

"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."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Time, Women, Lies)

"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
(Related: Women, God, Court)

"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
(Related: Truth, Will)

"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
(Related: Being, Office, Open, Scripture)

"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."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Truth, Grace, May, Salvation)

"As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Laws, Light, Rules)

"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
(Related: Heart, Atheism)

"But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Fear, Man, Now)

"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."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Church, Day, Desire, Scripture)

"How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?"
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: God, Son, Being)

"I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge."
- Anne Hutchinson