Richard Hooker Quotes

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

...‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the truth of the statements that God has all power and infinite intelligence, and that His nature is infinite goodness and love. To think in this manner all day will be the most difficult thing, because thought is so subtle. To speak in accordance with these truths will be easier, if you are vigilant. To act in accordance with them will be the easiest part, although it may require much in the way of moral courage.

God finds himself by creating.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.