Bishop Lancelot Andrewes Quotes (5 Quotes)

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and the power for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.

The nearer the Church, the further from God.

FAITH Coming unto God, I believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him I know that my Redeemer liveth that He is the Christ the Son of the Living God that He is indeed the Saviour of the world that He came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Through the grace of Jesus Christ we believe that we shall be saved even as our fathers withal. I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

THANKSGIVING O my Lord, my Lord, I thank Thee for that I am, that I am alive, that I am rational for nurture, preservation, governance for education, citizenship, religion for Thy gifts of grace, nature, estate for redemption, regeneration, instructio.

COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls and didst bless them, so as to increase and multiply. The things concerning the Ascension Set up Thyself, O God, above the heavens and Thy glory above all the earth. By thine Ascension draw us withal unto Thee, O Lord, so as to set our affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. By the awful mystery of Thy Holy Body and Precious Blood in the evening of this day Lord, have mercy.