Thomas Hooker quotes
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“Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.”
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“When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever.”
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“The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.”
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“I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.”
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“Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.”
-- Thomas Hooker
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“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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“No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.”
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“The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).”
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