List of Richard Hooker Quotes

Of Two Evils We Take The Less.

I Observe There Is In Mr. Hooker No Affected Language; But A Grave, Comprehensive, Clear Manifestation Of Reason, And That Backed With The Authority Of The Scriptures, The Fathers And Schoolmen, And With All Law Both Sacred And Civil.

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.

Angels Are Unsatisfiable In Their Longing To Do By All Means All Manner Of Good Unto All The Creatures, ...especially The Children Of Men.

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved With Authority, Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance; Whereby It Cometh To Pass That Having Learned Men In Admiration, They Rather Fear To Dislike Them Than Know Wherefore They Should Allow And Follow Their Judgments. Contrariwise With Them That Are Skilful Authority Is Much More Strong And Forcible; Because They Only Are Able To Discern How Just Cause There Is Why To Some Men's Authority So Much Should Be Attributed.

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved By Authority Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance

Man Doth Seek A Triple Perfection: First A Sensual, Consisting In Those Things Which Very Life Itself Requireth Either As Necessary Supplements, Or As Beauties And Ornaments Thereof; Then An Intellectual, Consisting In Those Things Which None Underneath Man Is Either Capable Of Or Acquainted With; Lastly A Spiritual And Divine, Consisting In Those Things Whereunto We Tend By Supernatural Means Here, But Cannot Here Attain Unto Them.

Even Ministers Of Good Things Are Like Torches, A Light To Others, Waste And Destruction To Themselves.

Words Must Be Taken According To The Matter Whereof They Are Uttered.

To Live By One Man's Will Becomes The Cause Of All Misery.

Of Law There Can Be No Less Acknowledged, Than That Her Seat Is The Bosom Of God, Her Voice The Harmony Of The World: All Things In Heaven And Earth Do Her Homage, The Very Least As Feeling Her Care, And The Greatest As Not Exempted From Her Power.

See We Not Plainly That Obedience Of Creatures Unto The Law Of Nature Is The Stay Of The Whole World?