Cranmer's Quotes

#1. One of Cranmer's goals in writing and revising the Book of Common Prayer was to get Scripture into the ears of the people so that their hearts might be turned to God and their lives transformed by his love. Cranmer

Michael Jensen

#2. I was just going over London Bridge and I saw someone had attacked the Madonna's statue. Knocked off the baby's head.'
'That was done a while back. It would be that devil Cranmer. You know what he is when he's taken a drink.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

Doug Cranmer

#4. Don't run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

Thomas Cranmer

#6. Choose your friends because you feel most like yourself around them, because the jokes are easy and you feel like you're in your best outfit when you're with them, even though you're just in a t-shirt.

Caitlin Moran

#7. 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

#8. Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

Jack Kerouac

#9. I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

Abby Wambach

#10. Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#11. 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 Cranmer

#12. I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her

Thomas Cranmer

#13. There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

Thomas Cranmer

#14. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit ... I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Thomas Cranmer

#15. What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.

Thomas Cranmer

#16. And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

Thomas Cranmer

#17. I revel in flowers without let,
An atom at random in space;
My soul dwells in regions ethereal,
And the world is my dreaming-place.

L. Cranmer-Byng

#18. 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.

Thomas Cranmer