Top 8 Quotes by Thomas Cranmer

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

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

Thomas Cranmer

Love, Inspirational, Heart

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

Thomas Cranmer

Christian, Men, Ought

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

Thomas Cranmer

Religious, Jesus, Enemy

Thomas Cranmer (1833). “Remains”, p.140

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

Soul, Ignorant, Meat

Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111

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

Thomas Cranmer

Men, Economics, Wells

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

Dust, Ashes, Earth

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

Strong, Rome, Scripture

Thomas Cranmer (1846). “Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer”, p.63