Quotes About Bede

It may be alleged, indeed, in favor of contrary opinions, that in Bede's time there were possibly some few vineyards in Ireland, and that St. Dominic of Ossory, as some say, introduced bees there long after the times of Solinus.

3. Next (another good principle from Bede), "When you get a response, check it out." Check it out with friends, with mentors. Talk about it. This, says Bede, is a classic principle of guidance: Test the guidance. Real guidance will stand up to sustained testing. False guidance—which is usually just our own will trying to have its way—will not stand up to ongoing scrutiny.

Bede invented the idea of England, or at least the idea of the English as a single people.

In Bede's great work they saw a golden age in which every minster had once been a model Benedictine community,

Here our best guide is once again the Venerable Bede,

The works of other eighth-century chroniclers are pitifully thin compared to those written by Bede,

Bede, who would doubtless have furnished us with a detailed explanation of such a massive engineering project,

As Bede explains in his book The Reckoning of Time,

According to Bede, on one occasion Paulinus spent more than a month at Yeavering,