Now is the time of trial.to see whether we fear more God or man. - John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, Letter from prison,1555, before he was burned at the stake quoted in, Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers, p.123
Erasmus told Luther's collaborator, Philip Melanchthon that Cardinal Wolsey, 'a supporter of liberal studies', could find in Luther nothing to take offence at - 'except his denial that the primacy of the supremer pontiff is part to the divine law'.- Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers, p.123
Freddie Trueman was not too impressed with David(Sheppard)'s slip catching prowess, and after seeing chance put down he strolled over and mutters, 'I think, Reverend, that when you, of all people, put yer 'ands together, you'd met it stick.'- Dickie Bird, Dickie Bird's Britain, p.94
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