Phrase by 'Thomas Becket'
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Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanMe , Myself , Good , God
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanWho , Cunning , Path , Use
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanEffort , Truth , Remember , Faith
Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanYou , Look , God , Smoke
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanLove , Good , Faith , Justice
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanMan , End , Joy , Wait
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanTime , Lost , How , Would
When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They must, one time or other, make a stand.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanTime , Friends , Stand , Succeed
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanPeople , God , Faith , Water
With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.
Author: Thomas Becket - English ClergymanWill , Church , Road , Fall
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