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Top 15 Richard Hooker Quotes (2024 Update)

Richard Hooker Quote: “God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.”

1. “God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.”

2. “For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.”

3. “Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance.”

4. “The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

5. “Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.”

6. “The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery.”

7. “To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.”

8. “Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.”

9. “Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.”

10. “Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.”

11. “He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “A good anesthesiologist is essential to any important surgical effort. Without one, the greatest surgeon in the world is helpless. With one, relatively untalented surgeons can look good.”

12. “A good anesthesiologist is essential to any important surgical effort. Without one, the greatest surgeon in the world is helpless. With one, relatively untalented surgeons can look good.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?”

13. “See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.”

14. “I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Of two Evils we take the less.”

15. “Of two Evils we take the less.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.”

16. “So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “When Radar O’Reilly, just out of high school, left Ottumwa, Iowa, and enlisted in the United States Army it was with the express purpose of making a career of the Signal Corps.”

17. “When Radar O’Reilly, just out of high school, left Ottumwa, Iowa, and enlisted in the United States Army it was with the express purpose of making a career of the Signal Corps.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Normal people go crazy in this place.”

18. “Normal people go crazy in this place.”

— Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker Quote: “Such is our human tendency, that whenever we admire somebody for their achievements in great things, it is hard to persuade us that they err in anything.”

19. “Such is our human tendency, that whenever we admire somebody for their achievements in great things, it is hard to persuade us that they err in anything.”

— Richard Hooker

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