Philip Doddridge DD (1702–51) was an English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter. Philip Doddridge was born in London the last of the twenty children of Daniel Doddridge, a dealer in oils and pickles. His father was a son of John Doddridge, rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, who was ejected from his living following the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and became a nonconformist minister, and a great-nephew of the judge and MP Sir John Doddridge. Philip’s mother, Elizabeth, considered to have been the greater influence on him, was the orphan daughter of the Rev John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, during the unsettled period following the flight of the Elector Palatine. In England, Rev John Bauman was appointed master of the grammar school at Kingston upon Thames.
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Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
—Philip Doddridge
Topics: Zeal
Let us live while we live.
—Philip Doddridge
Topics: Life and Living
Live while you live, the epicure would say, and seize the pleasures of the passing 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 while I live to thee.
—Philip Doddridge
Topics: Time Management, Life
The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.
—Philip Doddridge
If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.
—Philip Doddridge
Topics: Love
He is the wisest and happiest man, who, by constant attention of thought discovers the greatest opportunity of doing good, and breaks through every opposition that he may improve these opportunities.
—Philip Doddridge
Topics: Man
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