John Berridge

Rev. John Berridge

John Berridge (February 1716 − January 22, 1793) was an Anglican evangelical revivalist and hymnist.

Quotes

• Make me like a little child,
  Simple, teachable, and mild;
  Seeing only in Thy light;
  Walking only in Thy might!
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 334.

• Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 480.

• Run, John, and work, the law commands,
  Yet finds me neither feet nor hands;
  But sweeter news the gospel brings,
  It bids me fly and lends me wings.
  • Reported in Charles Spurgeon, The Salt-Cellars (1889), p. 200. Often mistakenly attributed to John Bunyan.