Richard Hooker Quotes
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The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men. (Richard Hooker Quotes)
What is virtue but a medicine, and vice but a wound? (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Things confirmed by long practice and usage have all the force of law (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered (Richard Hooker Quotes)
To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery (Richard Hooker Quotes)
They that are more frequent to dispute be not always the best able to determine (Richard Hooker Quotes)
When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are (Richard Hooker Quotes)
So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance (Richard Hooker Quotes)
In moral action divine law helpeth exceedingly the law of reason to guide life, but in the supernatural it alone guideth (Richard Hooker Quotes)
In matters of fact, they say there is some credit to be given to the testimony of men, but not in matters of judgment (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Evil ministers of good things are as torches, a light to others, a waste to none but themselves only (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures,... especially the children of men (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves (Richard Hooker Quotes)
Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth (Richard Hooker Quotes)
So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the exercise of prayer (Richard Hooker Quotes)
There are men born under that constellation which maketh them, I know not how, as unapt to enrich themselves as they are ready to impoverish others (Richard Hooker Quotes)
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance (Richard Hooker Quotes)
That to live by one man’s will became the cause of all men’s misery (Richard Hooker Quotes)
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers (Richard Hooker Quotes)