Lancelot Andrewes Quotes

• 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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  Teacher, Gratitude, Prayer

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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.

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  Soul, Needs, Body

  Lancelot Andrewes (1657). “Apospasmatia Sacra, Or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures”, p.532

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

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  Bible, Christian, Heart

  Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”

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

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  Two, Sin, Lord

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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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.

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  Crush, Catholic, Unity

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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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 Andrewes

  Father, Writing, Two

  Lancelot Andrewes (1967). “Sermons”

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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.

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  Flower, Wind, Gone

  Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”, p.138

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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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  Evil, Imagination, Soul

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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.

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  Journey, Years, Long

  Of the Nativity sermon 15 (1622) See T. S. Eliot 68

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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.

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  May, Praying, Clergy

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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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.

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  Wealth, Ifs

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Ninety-six Sermons”, p.36

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

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Two, Charity, Coats

  Lancelot Andrewes, Peter Hall (1839). “The private devotions and Manual for the sick of Launcelot Andrews”, p.126

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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.

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  Power, Glory, Lord

  Lancelot Andrewes (1920). “The Preces Private of Lancelot Andrewes”

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• 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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  Strong, Rocks, Defense

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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.

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  Men, Soul And Body, Two

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.33

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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.

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  Life, Jesus, Father

  Lancelot Andrewes (1949). “The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes”

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

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  May, Eternal Life, Eternal

  Lancelot Andrewes (1856). “Devotions”, p.133

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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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  Life, Art, Moving

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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.

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  Men, Age, Why Not

  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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• 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?

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  Passion, Long, Confusion

  Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”

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• Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Riches, Wealth, Rich

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.10

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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.

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  Christ, Virtue, Worthy

  Lancelot Andrewes (1874). “Ninety-six Sermons: Sermons preached in Lent, on Good-Friday, and on Easter-day”, p.120

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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.

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  Father, Pride, Fire

  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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• 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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  Life, Running, Law

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.51

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