Thomas Cranmer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
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In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
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There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
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And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
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Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.
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Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
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The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.
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In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.
-- Thomas Cranmer
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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