Richard Hooker Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Famous Quotes by Richard Hooker
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“Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.”
Preaching Quotes
Source: quoted by Gladstone, 1880, see Morley's "Life of Gladstone", bk. VIII, ch. I
“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.”
Prudence Quotes
Source: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (bk. V, ch. LXXX, no. 9)
“That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.”
Misery Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastical Polity (bk. I, ch. X, 5)
“The real presence of Christ's most precious Body and Blood is not to be sought for in the Sacrament, but in the worthy receiver of the Sacrament.”
Christianity Quotes
“Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639 There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.”
Christianity Quotes
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