Some quotations by the great Richard Hooker for us to ponder:
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.
We had rather follow the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love.
And here's the one that moves and touches me the most:
Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him; and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach.
Our safest eloquence concerning the Most High is our silence. Oh, yes.
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