English Clergy Quotes

George Crabbe
Reginald Heber
Sydney Smith
Thomas Goodwin
John Flavel
Samuel John Stone

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

A mathematician is always a mathematician, even without his formulas and diagrams.

The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.

'Turbot, Sir,' said the waiter, placing before me two fishbones, two eyeballs, and a bit of black mackintosh.

Kitty: Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur.
Lady Bab: Then you have an immense pleasure to come.

Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.

Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world.

All things are molded by some plastic force Out of some atoms somewhere up in space.

Samuel John Stone
Samuel John Stone
Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
Boucher admits that the use of slavery in the British colonies is better regulated than in other countries, but notes that:
"it is surely worse in this, that here, in one sense, it never can end. An African slave, even when made free, supposing him to be possessed even of talents and of virtue, can never, in these colonies, be quite on terms of equality with a free white man."

All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

Reginald Heber
Reginald Heber
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

John Flavel
John Flavel
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

George Crabbe
George Crabbe