Quotes by Thomas Becket - Page 1

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
Thomas Becket / Saint
Atone
Carefully
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Better are the blows of a friend than the flase kisses of an enemy.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Blow
Enemy
Kissing
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I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Peace
Blood
Dying
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Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Next
Works
Discover
Speedily
Whosoever
Wisely
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All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Giving
Real
Winning
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Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Cunning
Path
Serpent
Use
Along
Among
Those
Must
Tortuous
Tread
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Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Expectations
Tests
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We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Trust
Cursed
Flesh
Reliance
Man Know Who
Arm
Placed
Princes
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The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?
Thomas Becket / Saint
Clergy
Taken
Banished
Neck
Desires
Possessions
Sword
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My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Alone
Lord
My Own
Within
Bosom
Dashed
Falls
Hand
Hopes
Laid
Shall
Sustains
Whom
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When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They must, one time or other, make a stand.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Constancy
One Time
Persecution
Succeed
Yield
Stand
Except
Proved
Required
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In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Delayed
Grace
Our Lord
Repent
Sentence
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The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Apostolic
Destruction
Pope
Subtle
Weak
Confound
Trip
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The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny on my head, and I chose to be driven out rather than to subscribe.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Calumny
Driven
Injustice
Brow
Chose
Lowering
Opposed
Subscribe
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I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I had looked for support. My brethren, the bishops, sided with the court and were ready to pronounce judgment against me.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Bishops
Brethren
Court
Deserted
Judgment
Ready
Support
Looked
Pronounce
Quarter
Tribunal
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The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Persecuted
Prize
Punishment
Awarded
Bonds
Carried
Deserved
Gained
Hath
Triumphs
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Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Faith
Truth
Christ
Effort
Giving
Radiance
Real
Remember
Testimony
Weathered
Winning
Those
Came
Without
Crown
Ever
Gave
Give
Saints
Storms
Sufferings
Wins
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It is important that the Church of London, which has now lost its ruler, should receive for its new bishop a man whose personal merit, attainments in learning, and prudence in managing public business shall not be unworthy of the dignity of that see.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Church
Dignity
London
Lost
Merit
Prudence
Unworthy
Bishop
Public
Managing
Personal
Receive
Ruler
Shall
Whose
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Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Jurisdiction
Privilege
Tyrants
Vices
Show
Churches
Crimes
Towards
Resist
Shall
Tempt
Withdraw
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Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Faith
Agree
Harvest
Needed
People
Peter
Plant
Spread
Teaching
Water
Far
Gives
So Many People
Teachings
Unless
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My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me to oppose those who work iniquity? Do you not know how that God will scatter the bones of those who strive to oppress Him? They shall be confounded, because the Lord hath despised them.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Beloved
Bones
Brethren
Despised
Iniquity
Strive
Rise
Scatter
God Work Together
Confounded
Hath
Oppose
Oppress
Stand Up
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With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Church
Iniquity
Oppression
Riches
Sake
Streets
Advantages
Conceived
Forth
Lay
Liberties
Paths
Princes
Ruin
Sacrificed
Spoken
Temporal
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The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.
Thomas Becket / Saint
All Things
Christ
Church
Clergy
Noble
Salvation
Secular
Unity
Carry
Contains
Orders
Princes
Ruled
Souls
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Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Sake
Worldly
Acquitted
Affairs
Chancellor
Consented
Pleased
Promote
Responsibilities
Served
Thou
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Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Consolation
Exalted
Foolish
Honorable
Nevertheless
Smoke
Unprepared
God Your Look
Cut
Enemies
Fade
Fruits
Hour
Largest
Required
Shall
Trees
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Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
Thomas Becket / Saint
Bitterness
Conscience
Hardness
Hazards
Silence
Urges
However
Shall
Whereas
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To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Deprived
Devotion
Everlasting
Firm
Horns
Rooted
Secure
Sincerity
Confounded
Reward
Suffer
Wrongs
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Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory. But the head faints when it is abandoned by the other members. If they had been wise they would have seen that in attacking me they were attacking their own privileges and serving princes to their own servitude.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Abandoned
Anticipate
Attacking
Enmity
Serving
Encountered
Gained
Princes
Privileges
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