Philip Doddridge quotes
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“Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232
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“Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.36
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“Grace! 'tis a charming Sound, Harmonious to my Ear! Heav'n with the Echo shall resound, And all the Earth shall hear.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge, Job ORTON (1793). “Hymns ... Published from the author's manuscript by Job Orton. The seventh edition”, p.249
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“Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live to pleasure when I live to thee.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis (1807). “The family expositor: or, A paraphrase and version of the New Testament; with critical notes, and a practical improvement of each section ...”, p.32
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“Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Hymns,'Hark, the Glad Sound' (published 1755).
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“Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : 'Hymns' (1755) 'The active Christian'
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“Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge (1825). “The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul: Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses”, p.21
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“His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.”
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“I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.”
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge (1831). “The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge, D. D.: Illustrative of Various Particulars in His Life Hitherto Unknown; with Notices of Many of His Contemporaries; and a Sketch of the Ecclesiastical History of the Times in which He Lived”, p.233
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“If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.”
-- Philip Doddridge
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