Explore popular quotes and sayings by a bishop Hugh Latimer.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Hugh Latimer was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.
Saviour! teach me, day by day,
Love's sweet lesson to obey;
Sweeter lesson cannot be,
Loving Him who first loved me.
Charity is the very livery of Christ.
O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!
Say the truth and shame the devil.
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.
When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.
The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them.
As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.