Wikiquote:Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers/Joseph Cook

w:Draft:Joseph Cook (clergyman) Joseph Cook was a 19th century clergyman.

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• Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
  • Orthodoxy, With Preludes on Current Events (1878), p. 101.

• What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.
  • Orthodoxy, With Preludes on Current Events (1878), p. 298.

• We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 477.

• It is with men as with wheat; the light heads are erect even in the presence of Omnipotence, but the full heads bow in reverence before Him.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 484.