Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
THOMAS MOREI die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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