Quaker Culture: Smiting Words
- Author(s):
- Elias Hicks
- Issue:
- On Conflict (January 2023)
- Department:
- Quaker Culture
[When the] servant [of God] . . . is commanded to smite the rock, [he should] do so, and when to speak calmly to do so. Let the consequence be as it may. And I believe many precious gifts have been greatly marred and some lost by endeavoring to please.
– Elias Hicks (1823)