Venerable Bede Quotes

• Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

  Venerable Bede

  Faith, Letting Go, Inspiration

  Saint Brendan (the Voyager), Saint Bede (the Venerable), Eddius Stephanus (1983). “The age of Bede”

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• I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

  Venerable Bede

  Reborn, Centre, Acknowledge

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• Christ is the Morning Star,
  who, when the night of this world is past,
  gives to his saints the promise of the light of life,
  and opens everlasting day.

  Venerable Bede

  Morning, Stars, Past

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• If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

  Venerable Bede

  Godly, Thoughtful, People

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• He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

  Venerable Bede

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

  Venerable Bede

  Sea, Storm, Fickle

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• This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

  Venerable Bede

  Men, Space, Ignorant

  Venerable Bede , Aeterna Press (2016). “Venerable Bede Collection [3 Books]”, p.203, Aeterna Press

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• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  Venerable Bede

  Teaching, Writing, Discipline

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• While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

  Venerable Bede

  Fall, Rome, World

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• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  Venerable Bede

  Jesus, Forever, One Day

  Saint Bede (the Venerable) (1966). “Historia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo”

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• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

  Venerable Bede

  Copies, My Own, Secretary

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• The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

  Venerable Bede

  Mother, Inspiration, Unexpected

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• We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

  Venerable Bede

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

  Venerable Bede

  Men, Law, Sin

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• I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

  Venerable Bede

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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