Thomas More - God Quotes

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I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

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I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: For we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion. God has commanded us not to kill, and shall we kill so easily for a little money?

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They define virtue as living according to nature; and God, they say, created us to that end. When an individual obeys the dictates of reason in choosing one thing and avoiding another, he is following nature.

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'By god's body, master More, Indignatio principis mors est [The anger of the sovereign is death].' 'Is that all, my Lord?' quoth he [to the Duke of Norfolk]. 'Then in good faith is there no more difference between your grace and me, but that I shall die to-day, and you to-morrow.'

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I cumber you good Margaret much, but I would be sorry, if it should be any longer than tomorrow, for it is S. Thomas even and the octave of Saint Peter and therefore tomorrow long I to go to God, it were a day very meet and convenient for me.
Last letter to his daughter, before his execution

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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

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