Richard Hooker Quotes

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

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.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

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.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Of two Evils we take the less.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.