Hugh Price Hughes quotes

“The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.”
-- Hugh Price Hughes

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“Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.”
-- Hugh Price Hughes

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“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.”
-- Hugh Price Hughes

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“And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”

Source : Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

“He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.”

“He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”

“Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.”

“We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”

“My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.”

“I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.”