Venerable Bede

“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the last day I shall be raised from the earth.”

“And I pray you, good Jesus, that as you have graciously granted me to drink in with delight the words of Your knowledge, so You would mercifully grant me to attain one day to You, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Your face.”

“I have spent my whole life in the same monastery, and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure has been in learning, or teaching, or writing.”

“For if history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records evil of wicked men, the devout, religious listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and perverse and to follow what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”

“Better a stupid and unlettered brother who, working the good things he knows, merits life in heaven than one who, though being distinguished for his biblical knowledge, could boast of being Doctor of Doctors, but had no bread of love to feed his starving brother.”

“Christ is the morning star who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day.”

“He who will learn to read with credit and advantage, must not fix his eye so much upon the letter, as upon the meaning of what he reads.”

“It is a dangerous and absurd thing for any man to attempt to teach others what he has not first learned himself.”

“Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.”

“O glorious King, Lord of hosts, who triumphantly ascended into heaven today, leave us not orphans, but send us the promise of the Father, the Spirit of truth. Alleluia.”