"The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them."
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George Fox
1624 – 1691
Britischer Laienprediger, Begründer des Quäkertums
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