The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (65 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1874–1959
It's "Damn you, Jack — I'm all right!" with you chaps.
Brassbounder
(1910) ch. 3
1906–45
In me there is darkness, but with you there is light.
prayer written for fellow-prisoners in a Nazi prison, 1943
Letters and Papers from Prison
(1971)
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Widerstand und Ergebung
(Resistance and Submission, 1951) "Ein paar Gedanken über Verschiedenes"
1662
Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart.
Morning Prayer
Sentences of the Scriptures
We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.
Morning Prayer
General Confession
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Morning Prayer
General Confession
And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life.
Morning Prayer
General Confession
And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us.
Morning Prayer
The Lord's Prayer
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.
Morning Prayer
Gloria
We praise thee, O God: we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee: the Father everlasting.
To thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.
Morning Prayer
Te Deum
The glorious company of the Apostles: praise thee.
The goodly fellowship of the Prophets: praise thee.
The noble army of Martyrs: praise thee.
Morning Prayer
Te Deum
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
Morning Prayer
Te Deum
Day by day: we magnify thee;
And we worship thy Name: ever world without end.
Morning Prayer
Te Deum
O Lord, in thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded.
Morning Prayer
Te Deum
O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord.
Morning Prayer
Benedicite
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.
Morning Prayer
The Apostles' Creed
Give peace in our time, O Lord.
Morning Prayer
Versicle
O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies.
Morning Prayer
The Second Collect, for Peace
Grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger.
Morning Prayer
The Third Collect, for Grace
In Quires and Places where they sing, here followeth the Anthem.
Morning Prayer
rubric following Third Collect
Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.
Morning Prayer
Prayer for the Royal Family
Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests: Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them.
Morning Prayer
Prayer of St Chrysostom
O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give.
Evening Prayer
Second Collect
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.
Evening Prayer
Third Collect
Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith.
At Morning Prayer
Athanasian Creed "Quicunque vult"
Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
The Litany
From envy, hatred, and malice, and from all uncharitableness,
Good Lord, deliver us.
The Litany
From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil,
Good Lord, deliver us.
The Litany
From battle and murder, and from sudden death,
Good Lord, deliver us.
The Litany
In the hour of death, and in the day of judgement,
Good Lord, deliver us.
The Litany
That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children; and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives;
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
The Litany
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men.
Prayers…upon Several Occasions
"Collect or Prayer for all Conditions of Men"
We commend to thy fatherly goodness all those, who are any ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them, according to their several necessities, giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.
Prayers…upon Several Occasions
"Collect or Prayer for all Conditions of Men"
O God our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth.
Thanksgivings
For Rain
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light.
Collects
The first Sunday in Advent
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word.
Collects
The second Sunday in Advent
O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts.
Collects
The nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people.
Collects
The five and twentieth Sunday after Trinity
An open and notorious evil liver.
Holy Communion
introductory rubric
The Table, at the Communion-time having a fair white linen cloth upon it.
Holy Communion
introductory rubric
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid.
Holy Communion
The Collect
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
the phrase "sins of the fathers" is also used in the Douay/Rheims Bible (1609) in Numbers ch. 14, v. 18
Holy Communion
The Ten Commandments.
Incline our hearts to keep this law.
Holy Communion
The Ten Commandments (response)
Thou shalt do no murder.
Holy Communion
The Ten Commandments.
I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made.
Holy Communion Nicene Creed
And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church.
Holy Communion Nicene Creed
Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth.
Holy Communion
Prayer for the Church Militant
We humbly beseech thee most mercifully to accept our alms and oblations.
Holy Communion
Prayer for the Church Militant
To inspire continually the universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord.
Holy Communion
Prayer for the Church Militant
We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable.
Holy Communion
General Confession
Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to him.
Holy Communion
Comfortable Words (preamble)
Lift up your hearts.
Holy Communion
versicles and responses
It is meet and right so to do.
Holy Communion
versicles and responses
It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee.
Holy Communion
Hymn of Praise
Who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world.
Holy Communion
Prayer of Consecration
Who, in the same night that he was betrayed, took Bread; and, when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat, this is my Body which is given for you: Do this in remembrance of me.
Holy Communion
Prayer of Consecration
Among all the changes and chances of this mortal life.
Holy Communion
Collects after the Offertory
O merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him.
Public Baptism of Infants
Invocation of blessing on the child
