Lancelot Andrewes Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

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#3. The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

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#4. Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

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#5. We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.

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#6. 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!

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#7. 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.

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#8. Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Wisdom ruleth in counsel
so do riches.

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#14. 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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#15. For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

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#16. Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.

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