Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker
Richard Hookerwas an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. His defence of the role of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth century Caroline divines and later provided many members of the Church of England with a theological method which combined the claims of revelation, reason and tradition. Scholars disagree regarding Hooker's relationship with what would be called "Anglicanism" and the...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
Richard Hooker quotes about
two evil two-evils
Of two Evils we take the less.
beyond events interested legacy signature
What we were interested in as signature events were commissioned works, a legacy that would live on beyond the performance.
change worse
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better
call fifty friends-or-friendship glad great sounds
From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.
inspirational children mean
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.
men causes misery
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
want wells multitudes
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.
ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance
light waste torches
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
men two bows
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.
wise jobs men
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.
strong ignorance 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.
spiritual mean men
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.
taken matter
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.