Philip Doddridge: Quotes about God

Philip Doddridge was English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Philip Doddridge: 16 quotes 0 likes

“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 in pleasure when I live to thee.”

Philip Doddridge

Epigram on his Family Arms, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

God , Pleasure

“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 Doddridge

The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul.

God , Religion , Soul , Sense

“O God of Bethel! by whose hand
Thy people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led.”

Philip Doddridge

Published in 1755, Hymns: "O God of Bethel", Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 278.

God , People