Philip Doddridge: Quotes about God

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

Philip Doddridge: 16 quotes0 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).

“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.

“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.