Quotes from Thomas Becon

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

And as there is no damnation to them that are engrafted in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit; so is there no health nor salvation to them that live after the flesh, though they babble ever so much of Christ, of Christ's passion, blod, and death, of the remission of sins, of the mercy of God, of the gospel, of the sweet promises of God, and of everlasting life.

Who is a wretch, or unhappy? He that holdeth not himself content with that that God hath sent him.

Prayer is a lifting up of a pure mind unto God, in the which we ask somewhat of him according to his will.

We beseech thee, O heavenly Father, that we be never unmindful of this thy exceeding great kindness, nor unthankful for thy manifold and unspeakable mercies declared unto us in the glorious death of thy well-beloved Son; but so work thou in us through thy Holy Spirit, that we may be made worthy members of that body, whereof thy Son and our Saviour Jesus Christ is the Head.

Prayer is the present remedy for the souls of them that are sick.

What is the world? A heap and muster of men, without the word of God.

God hath not called us that we should be unclean, but holy and virtuous.

Therefore, brothers, whensoever ye perceive that ye offend God in any thing, despair not, fly unto repentance, be sorry for your sinful living; bewail your wicked manners, thirst after strength to do the will of God, confess your sins from the very heart, call for grace, desire mercy, and pray unto God that he will forgive you your faults, and he will undoubtedly remit and forgive you all the faults, sins, and trespasses that ye ever committed against him.

After the substance of the creatures, look, what they were before the consecration, even the very same do they remain still. Bread and wine they were before, in the which kind they being now consecrated appear still to remain.

Who is a fool? He that rashly is carried hither and thither with every motion, that considereth nothing, regardeth nothing, nor suffereth himself to be corrected and warned of his evil doing; but headlong runneth as he began, forcing not whether he sink or swim, or what becometh of him; and who, as he knoweth not the word of God, so he passeth not on it.

O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy servant, for no man that liveth shall be justified in thy sight.

God give us grace to have the true knowledge of God and of ourselves.

For our God is omnipotent, that is to say, almighty, plenteous in power, abundant, omnisufficient, full of all good, needy of nothing. The gods of the gentiles are of no power, puissance, and strength, full of all imbecility, weakness, and misery.