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 (June 26, 1702 – October 26, 1751) was an English Nonconformist leader.

Quotes

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

• Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve,
  And press with vigour on;
  A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
  And an immortal crown.
  • Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race, 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.
  • The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul.

• His goodness stands approved,
  Unchanged from day to day;
  I'll drop my burden at His feet,
  And bear a song away.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 262.

• Dear Saviour! we are Thine,
  By everlasting bands;
  Our hearts, our souls, we would resign
  Entirely to Thy hands.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

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