KNOW
"Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world."
Psalm 46:10
What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him? -- St Thomas More
DO RIGHT
"They do not know how to do right,"
declares the LORD,
who store up in their fortresses
what they have plundered and looted."
Amos 3:10
Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other. -- St. Thomas More
BEST
Then the king said to them,
"Whatever seems best to you I will do."
So the king stood beside the gate,
and all the people went out by hundreds and thousands.
2 Samuel 18:4
Nothing can come but that God wills. And I make me very sure that whatsoever that be, seem it never so bad in sight, it shall indeed be the best. -- St. Thomas More to his daughter
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| ST. THOMAS MORE |
Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII and Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale whose books he burned and whose followers he persecuted. More also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an ideal and imaginary island nation. More later opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church and refused to accept him as Supreme Head of the Church of England because it disparaged papal authority and Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Tried for treason, More was convicted on perjured testimony and beheaded.
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr of the schism that separated the Church of England from Rome; Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared More the "heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians". Since 1980, the Church of England has remembered More liturgically as a Reformation martyr. -- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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