Thomas Cranmer quotes
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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.”
-- Thomas CranmerSource : Thomas Cranmer (1833). “Remains”, p.140
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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.”
-- Thomas CranmerSource : Thomas Cranmer (1846). “Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer”, p.63
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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 CranmerSource : Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111
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Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.435, Chicken House
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