Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

22nd Tuesday after Trinity

It is nature which teacheth a wise man in fear to hide himself, but grace and faith doth teach him where.  Fools care not where they hide their heads . . . But because we are in danger like chased birds, like doves that seek and cannot see the resting holes that are right before them, therefore our Saviour giveth his disciples these encouragements beforehand, that fear might never so amaze them, but that always they might remember, that whatsoever evils at any time did beset them, to him they should still repair, for comfort, counsel, and succor.

Richard Hooker: Sermons.

17th Monday after Trinity

Now forasmuch as God hath so furnished the world, that there is no good thing needful but the same is also possible to be had; justice is the virtue whereby that good which wanteth in ourselves we receive inoffensively at the hands of others.

Richard Hooker: Sermons.

The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels

God which moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only, doth likewise move intellectual creatures, and especially his holy angels: for beholding the face of God, in admiration of so great excellency they all adore him; and being rapt with the love of his beauty, they cleave inseparably for ever unto him.  Desire to resemble him in goodness maketh them unweariable and even unsatiable in their longing to do by all means all manner good unto all the creatures of God, but especially unto the children of men: in the countenance of whose nature, looking downward, they behold themselves beneath themselves; even as upward, in God, beneath whom themselves are, they see that character which is nowhere but in themselves and us resembled.

Richard Hooker: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

16th Monday after Trinity

The more blest, the more curst, if we make his graces our own glory, without impression of all to him; whatsoever we have we steal, and the multiplication of God's favours doth but aggravate the crime of our sacrilege.  He, knowing how prone we are to unthanfulness in this kind, tempereth accordingly the means, whereby it is his pleasure to do us good . . . This is the cause why, as none of the promises of God do fail, so the most are in such sort brought to pass, that, if we after condiser the culprit, wherein the steps of his providence have gone, the due consideration thereof cannot choose but draw from us the selfsame words of astonishment, which the blessed Apostle hath: "O the depth of the riches of the wisdom of God!"

Richard Hooker: Sermons.

14th Saturday after Trinity

God hath created nothing simply for itself: but each thing in all things, and of every thing each part in order hath such interest, that in the whole world nothing is found whereunto any thing created can say, "I need thee not."

Richard Hooker: Sermons.

The Feast of St. Thomas

Whatsoever is spoken of God or things appertaining to God otherwise than as the truth is, though it seem an honor it is an injury.

Richard Hooker: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

3rd Thursday in Advent

In moral actions divine law helpeth exceedingly the law of reason to guide a man's life, but in supernatural it alone guideth.

Hooker: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.