William Laud quotes

William Laud quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.”
-- William Laud

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 383-84, 1922.

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“Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.”
-- William Laud

Source : "Old England's Worthies". Book by C. Cox, p. 120, 1847.

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