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Not who you're looking for? Others named Rowland Hill: English educational, social and postal reformer (1795-1879) · British preacher; (1744-1833) · English cricketer (1851-1912)
“I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.”
“Unless you live in Christ, you are dead to God.”
“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”
“But I am unable to reach the lofty theme; — yet I do not think that the smallest fish that swims in the boundless ocean ever complains of the immeasurable vastness of the deep. So it is with me, I can plunge with my puny capacity, into a subject, the immensity of which I shall never be able fully to comprehend.”
“I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.”
“Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.”
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Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton ( 1495–1561), was the publisher of the Geneva Bible, thereby earning the title "The First Protestant Lord Mayor of London", having held that office in 1549. He was a statesman, polymath, merchant and patron of art and philanthropist active through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. He is associated with the recovery and development of Tudor English drama a generation before Shakespeare, and events that Hill was involved in may have shaped one or more Shakespearean characters.
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