Quotes About Cuthbert

Excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. - Cuthbert Whitehead

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously; and here she sat now, knitting, and the table behind her was laid for supper.

It's not the first time I've been glad," retorted Marilla. "You do like to rub things in, Matthew Cuthbert.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously;

I liked those tales. They were better than my stepmother's stories of Cuthbert's miracles. Christians, it seemed to me, were forever weeping and I did not think Woden's worshippers cried much.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.

if anything sinister should befall him', his body was to be returned to Chester-le-Street for burial near St Cuthbert,

But Æthelstan was less fortunate in death than Cuthbert, and during the Reformation his remains were destroyed

Cuthbert was consecrated in York as Hexham's new bishop.