Joanna Southcott Quotes
"In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Malice, Pen, Satan)
"My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Faith)
"New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Day, Silence)
"The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Christ, Earth, End, Satan, Will, Years)
"The first is last, and the last is first."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: First)
"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Land, Summer)
"What you know not now you will know hereafter."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Now, Will)
"In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Men, Truth, Danger)
"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Fear, Spirit)
"If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Time, Wisdom, End, Judgment, Man, Will, Wrong)
"I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Now)
"I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Day, Earth, Night)
"I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Experience, Earth, Now, Sleep, Voice, Will)
"I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: God, Fool)
"In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Sister, Senses)
"Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Anger, Father, Night)
"At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers."
- Joanna Southcott
(Related: Church, Beginning, End)