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Hugh Latimer
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“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) first seen 1549 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)
“The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them…”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermons (1844) Cambridge University Press
“Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) first seen 1555 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To his friend Nicholas Ridley, as they were both about to be burned as heretics for their teachings and beliefs outside Balliol College, Oxford (16 October 1555); as quoted in History of the British Empire (1870) by Wil…
“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.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395
“My father was delighted to teach me to shoot with the bow. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body to the bow; not to draw with strength of arm as other nations do, but with the strength of the body.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People (New York: Harper & Bros, 1875) ch. 7, p. 358
“And now I would ask a strange question: who is the most diligent bishop and prelate in all England that passeth all the rest in doing his office? I can tell for I know him who it is; I know him well. But now I think I see you listening and hearkening that I should name him. There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all others; he is never out of his diocese; he is never from his cure; ye shall never find him unoccupied; he is ever in his parish; he keepeth residence at all times; ye shall never find him out of the way, call for him when you will he is ever at home; the diligentest preacher in all the realm; he is ever at his plough; no lording nor loitering can hinder him; he is ever applying his business, ye shall never find him idle, I warrant you. And his office is to hinder religion, to maintain superstition, to set up idolatry, to teach all kind of popery. He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plough; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory...O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) first seen 1548 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon on the Plough, 29 January 1548. (G. E. Corrie (ed.), Sermons by Hugh Latimer, sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (Cambridge University Press, 1844), pp. 70-1.)