Lancelot Andrewes quotes
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“Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.”
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“A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Of the Nativity sermon 15 (1622) See T. S. Eliot 68
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“Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.10
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“Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press
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“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.”
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“Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”, p.138
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“There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1874). “Ninety-six Sermons: Sermons preached in Lent, on Good-Friday, and on Easter-day”, p.120
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“Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“It is good reason, that man consisting of two parts, the soul and body, the body only should not take up all, but the soul should be remembered too. Enjoying is the body's part, and well-doing is the soul's; your souls are suitors to you to remember them, that is, to remember well-doing, which is the soul's portion.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.33
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“What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1856). “Devotions”, p.133
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“For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Ninety-six Sermons”, p.36
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“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”
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“One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period – the centuries that is, before Constantine, and two after, determine the boundary of our faith.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1967). “Sermons”
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“Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”
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“We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1657). “Apospasmatia Sacra, Or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures”, p.532
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“COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless them, so as to increase and multiply. The things concerning the Ascension: Set up Thyself, O God, above the heavens and Thy glory above all the earth. By thine Ascension draw us withal unto Thee, O Lord, so as to set our affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. By the awful mystery of Thy Holy Body and Precious Blood in the evening of this day: Lord, have mercy.”
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“FAITH Coming unto God, I believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him: I know that my Redeemer liveth; that He is the Christ the Son of the Living God; that He is indeed the Saviour of the world; that He came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Through the grace of Jesus Christ we believe that we shall be saved even as our fathers withal. I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1949). “The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes”
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“HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1920). “The Preces Private of Lancelot Andrewes”
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“He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes, Peter Hall (1839). “The private devotions and Manual for the sick of Launcelot Andrews”, p.126
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“Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press
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“Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.51
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“Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.”
-- Lancelot AndrewesSource : Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press
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