"Bergen Evans suggested that the phrase combined piety and practicality. The second half the phrase is often used by itself, and forms the title of the 1945 film ""Keep Your Powder Dry"" as well as Margaret Mead's 1942 book ""And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America"". Trust in God and keep your powder dry ""Trust in God and keep your powder dry"" is a maxim attributed to Oliver Cromwell, but which first appeared in 1834 in the poem ""Oliver's Advice"" by William Blacker with the words ""Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder"
"memorie of the truly vertuous and religious the Lady Ursula Chichester daughter to Sr. William Strode of Newingeam, Knight, and wife to Sr. John Chichester of Hall, Knight, by whome she had issue seven sonnes and two daughters whereof survive fower sonnes, two sonnes & one daught. heere buried. She departed this life in the true faith of Christ Jesus and was heere enterred the 6th (5th?) day of July Anno D(omi)ni 1635 aetat(is) suae (47?).<br> Fayre virtuous sainct injoy thy peacefull sleepe,<br> While wee that live employ our foes to weepe,<br> But when thou wak'st let glory shew thy"
"not. Queen Elizabeth is supposed to have awarded a medal to her admirals, bearing the phrase. The alternative term, ""The Protestant Wind"" is sometimes used, again to emphasise the divine nature of the victory. The phrase, along with Elizabeth's speech to the troops at Tilbury, has become part of the popular mythology of the event, in a similar way that England expects that every man will do his duty has become a part of the national heritage after the Battle of Trafalgar. Altered and abbreviated versions of the phrase exist, such as ""God blew and they were scattered"" or ""God"
"said: The Spirit of the Lord rests mightily upon me and I feel to bless you in the name of Jesus Christ. I promise you that the climate will be moderated for your good. I can see these great sagebrush prairies, as far as the eye can reach, turned into fertile fields. I bless the land that it shall yield forth in its strength. Flowers and trees and fine homes shall grace this great valley from one end to the other. Schools and colleges of higher learning shall be built to serve you that you may learn the mysteries of"
"him, of whom the Prophet David said, ""Your seat, O God, endures forever; a rod of righteousness is the rod of your kingdom. You justice and hate iniquity, therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows,"" Jesus Christ, our Lord. Be steadfast and hold fast to that place of which you have become heir by succession from your forefathers, now delegated to you by the authority of Almighty God and transmitted to you by us and all the bishops and servants of God and when you see the clergy draw near to the"
"hic ad pietatem et ad studia bonarum literarum alimur; rogantes ut nos his donis tuis recte utentes, ad resurrectionis gloriam immortalem perducamur, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum."" Lord God, the resurrection and life of all who believe in thee, who art always worthy to be praised by both the living and the dead, we give thee thanks for Edward the Second, our Founder, for Adam de Brome, our principal benefactor and for all our other benefactors, by whose benefits we are here maintained in godliness and learning; and we beseech thee that using these thy gifts rightly we may be"
"the purity of religion and regardless of consequences to himself. His nephew James Melville, who was present, records the famous statement he made in Falkland in private to King James VI of Scotland, later to become King James I of England . Calling him ""God's sillie vassal"" and taking him by the sleeve, he said, ""Sir, we will humblie reverence your Majestie always, namlie in public, but sen we have this occasioun to be with your Majestie in privat, and the treuthe is, yie ar brought in extream danger bathe of your lyff and croun, and with yow, the country"
"mothers, guiding faith,<br> We will be true to thee till death. Faith of our mothers, Christian faith,<br> Is truth beyond our stumbling creeds,<br> Still serve the home and save the Church,<br> And breathe thy spirit through our deeds:<br> Faith of our mothers, Christian faith!<br> We will be true to thee till death.<br> Arthur B. Patten Arthur Bardwell Patten (who often signed his name ""A. B. Patten"") (March 26, 1864 to May 10, 1952) was a distinguished United States Congregational Church clergyman who served congregations in New England and the Pacific coast. He was the author of books, hymn texts and"
"Ensign Cheek during his captivity. He said that attempts were made by their captors to convert them from Christianity to Islam by keeping the prisoners in stocks in the sun without water until they capitulated. Reverend Nundy claimed that Ensign Cheek said to him ""Padre Sahib, hold onto your faith – don't give it up!"" A fellow prisoner, Mrs Coleman, reported that Ensign Cheek told her to ""be true to your faith and hope."" A memorial tablet, inscribed with the following, was placed on the Cheek family tomb in the graveyard next to the Parish Church of All Saints in"
"over his shoulders, that he be a strong, just, faithful, and prudent ruler of this Empire and of Your people: a purger of the infidels, a cultivator of justice, a rewarder of merits and repayer of faults, a defender of Your Holy Church and of the Christian faith, for the honour and praise of Your glorious Name. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, your Son, Who with You lives and reigns in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen. With this prayer, the consecration of the emperor was complete. From this point onwards, the monarch was never"
"said ""Mother of mine, remember me,"" and the second wife ""Mother of Christ, remember me."" John Hawkwood Sir John Hawkwood (c. 1323–1394) was an English soldier and ""condottiero"". As his name was claimed to be hard to pronounce by non-English contemporaries, there are many variations of it in the historical record. As a result, he often referred to himself as ""Haukevvod"", and others called him ""Giovanni Acuto"" meaning ""John the Astute"" or ""John Sharp"" referring to his ""cleverness or cunning"". His legacy has made him a man shrouded in myth in both England and Italy. Hawkwood is understood to have"
"Gwilym Puw Captain Gwilym Puw (sometimes anglicised as William Pugh) (c. 1618 – c. 1689) was a Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer and a member of a prominent Recusant family from the Creuddyn in north Wales. He was a prolific author of Welsh language poems, mainly in defence of the Catholic faith. He also translated Catholic liturgical works from the Latin to his native Welsh. In 1648 he composed a Welsh poem in which loyalty to the king is combined with devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. He begins by saying that the political evils afflicting Britain are God's"
"or unsanitary liquids of many varieties. Charles Spurgeon, the famous open-air Baptist preacher of England, believed that open-air preaching was instrumental in getting people to hear the gospel who might otherwise never hear it, and many open-air preachers today believe that it reaches many more people at once than other approaches to evangelism do. Charles Spurgeon recommends several things for open-air preachers, such as never trying to speak into the wind, trying to speak away from the wind so one's voice will carry farther, (sometimes up to half a mile by Spurgeon's account) keeping sermons concise instead of overly verbose"
"held by it. For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken… For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy Holy One see corruption… Thou wilt make me full of gladness with thy presence.’ Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set"
"them was ""Remember Up-Moist, Down-Dry and Keep it Holy"" which was the reference to his conviction that one has to include moisture processes such as evaporation and rainfall to understand atmospheric energy balance. ""Thou Shalt Not Concern Thyself Unduly With Commandments and Regulations"" expressed his disdain for bureaucracy. Being observational atmospheric scientist, he detested numerical models of the atmosphere - ""Thou Shalt Not Bow Before Computer Terminals Nor Involve Thyself With Numerical Models"". He held very lively group meetings with his students and encouraged them to question everything - ""Remember Thy Project Meeting and Keep it Holy"", ""Thou Shalt Not"
"dangers break him. His enemies could extract from him no sign which would not prove to all that Peter ""until this time and forever lives in his successors and exercises judgment as is particularly clear in every age""[2] as an excellent writer at the Council of Ephesus says. ' The breviary of the Orthodox Church states: “Glorious definer of the Orthodox Faith...sacred chief of divine dogmas, unstained by error...true reprover of heresy...foundation of bishops, pillar of the Orthodox faith, teacher of religion... Thou didst adorn the divine see of Peter, and since from this divine Rock, thou didst immovably defend"
"Polydore Vergil Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil (or Virgil), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino (""c."" 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the ""Proverbiorum libellus"" (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; ""De inventoribus rerum"" (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the ""Anglica Historia"" (drafted by 1513; printed 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the ""Father of English History"". Vergil is sometimes referred"
"punishment for the abandonment of the ""true religion"". People were far happier, he proceeds, when the 'Old Faith' prevailed. But a better time is coming. The English Roundheads will be made square by a crushing defeat, and the king will return ""under a golden veil""; the Mass shall be sung once more, and a bishop shall elevate the host. Here we have evidently a mystical allusion to the King of Kings on His throne in the tabernacle, and this is the theme underlying the whole poem. Gwilym Puw Captain Gwilym Puw (sometimes anglicised as William Pugh) (c. 1618 – c."
"Known unto God Known unto God is a phrase used on the gravestones of unknown soldiers in Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemeteries. The phrase was selected by British poet Rudyard Kipling who worked for what was then the Imperial War Graves Commission during the First World War. The origin of the phrase is unknown but it has been linked to sections of the King James Bible. The phrase was re-used for those killed during the Second World War and appears on more than 212,000 gravestones across the world. In 2013 there was controversy when it was proposed that the"
"but has since been demolished. The genuine piety of his religious verses secured a place in popular hymnology for some of his hymns, in particular the still popular ""O Lord, another day is flown"". Much of his fame was due to sympathy inspired by his early death; but Lord Byron agreed with Southey about the young man's promise. Robert Southey said of him: ""...he could not rest satisfied till he had formed his principles upon the basis of Christianity."" His ""Remains"", with his letters (which along with White's poems contain many allusions to himself that they may almost be considered"
"was supposedly consecrated by having a Bible pressed to his neck while Scory said, ""Take thou authority to preach the word of God sincerely."" This story was later discredited, as a full eyewitness description was found of the consecration of Parker, in Lambeth Palace Chapel, by bishops Scory, William Barlow, Myles Coverdale, and John Hodgkins. In this account it is stated that it was not the consecration which took place at the Nag's Head, but only that those who took part in it dined there subsequently. As recently as the late nineteenth century, the legend was still being told as"
"things and always walk without offense in the way of justice. May he nourish and teach, defend and instruct your Church and people and as a powerful king administer a vigorous regimen against all visible and invisible powers and, with your aid, restore their souls to the concord of true faith and peace; that, supported by the ready obedience and glorified by the due love of these, his people, he may by your mercy ascend to the position of his forefathers and, defended by the helmet of your protection, covered with your invincible shield and completely clothed with heavenly armour,"
"""Anglica Historia"""". Polydore Vergil Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil (or Virgil), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino (""c."" 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the ""Proverbiorum libellus"" (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; ""De inventoribus rerum"" (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the ""Anglica Historia"" (drafted by 1513; printed 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the ""Father of English History"". Vergil is"
"with the young, his sound judgment, and his varied attainments won for him the confidence and affection of our people. He was cheerful and patient during his painful and prolonged illness, and his faith in his Lord and Saviour was expressed in the words of the Psalm which he had chosen to be read on the day of his burial: ""The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"". Much more might be said of his character and ministry; but it was his"
"Robert Herrick (poet) Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for ""Hesperides"", a book of poems. This includes the ""carpe diem"" poem ""To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"", with the first line ""Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"". Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. He was named for his uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous MP for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood"
"the last three days. Almighty and Eternal God, we thank you for the gift of St. Gerard and the example of his life. Because St. Gerard always had complete faith and trust in you, you blessed him with great powers of help and healing. Through him, you showed your loving concern for all those who suffered or were in need. You never failed to hear his prayer on their behalf. Today, through St. Gerard's powerful intercession, you continue to show your love for all those who place their trust in you. And so, Father, full of faith and confidence, and"
"of God was upon him; and such his behaviour towards God, in the instance of devotion and religion, as if he thought he was a spectacle to angels and to men. Insomuch, his sobriety and piety brought great reputation to the royal cause in those parts where he lived; and he was an excellent ornament to his profession, both as a subject and a Christian.Among all the instances of the piety of this worthy gentleman, unto whom I had the honour of being personally known, that must not be forgotten which he did to the memory of his grandfather; for"
"brand and manufacture the famous Cussons Imperial Leather soap. In 1892 Thomas published extracts from letters of people recommending the Cussons brand. Below is an extract from a clergyman to Mr. Cussons dated 28 March 1888: Below is an extract from a Mr S. Smith dated 19 March 1888: Below is an extract from a woman in service, dated 17 March 1888: Thomas Tomlinson Cussons Thomas Tomlinson Cussons (24 November 1838 – 18 March 1927). Born in Kingston upon Hull, England to George Cussons (1804-1858) and his wife Jane Cussons (née Moss 1804-1882). Thomas was the head of the British"
"is finisht with thy fall; Thy crop of corn is tares availing naughts, Thy good God knows thy hope, thy hap and all. Short were thy days, and shadowed was thy sun, T'obscure thy light unluckily begun. Time trieth truth, and truth hath treason tripped; Thy faith bare fruit as thou hadst faithless been: Thy ill spent youth thine after years hath nipt; And God that saw thee hath preserved our Queen. Her thread still holds, thine perished though unspun, And she shall live when traitors lives are done. Thou soughtst thy death, and found it in desert, Thou look'dst"
"great principles of Christian liberty. He was convinced that this country took a right step, and that we must never again part with that freedom by going back to the domination of Rome. ""This country has been made by the Word of God. The effect of that Word upon the English character has been incalculable. I trust that the memorial will help to keep in mind the reading of the Bible, and above all, simple trust in God. The words of Latimer to Ridley, I would repeat to all - 'Play the man, for by God's grace we shall today"
"by Thee inspire them with their sometime loyalty so that made glad by the fidelity of all his people, and provided with the helmet of Thy protection, and ever guarded with the invincible buckler, and compassed about with the celestial armies, he may happily triumph over his enemies, cause the infidel to fear his power, and with joy bring peace to those who fight under Thy banner. Adorn him by many a gracious blessing, with the virtues with the which Thou hast enriched Thy faithful ones aforesaid, counsel him richly in the government of the kingdom, and anoint him plenteously"
"the backing of the State or Church. Instead, he put into practice what he believed to be the Biblical principle of trusting God alone to supply his needs. Anthony Norris Groves Anthony Norris Groves (1 February 1795 – 20 May 1853) was an English Protestant missionary and the ""father of faith missions"". He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq, and later in southern India. His ideas influenced a circle of friends who became leaders in the Plymouth Brethren. Among these were JN Darby, JV Parnell (Lord Congleton), and George"
"sneeze, had likely led people to believe that sneezing could easily be fatal. Such a theory could explain the reasoning behind the traditional English phrase, ""God bless you"", in response to a sneeze, the origins of which are not entirely clear (see ""Traditional Responses To A Sneeze"" below for alternative explanations). Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd, for instance, the registrar of the Royal College of Physicians, in his 1909 book, ""The Last Days of Charles II"", states that, when the controversial monarch was on his deathbed, his medical attendants administered a concoction of cowslips and extract of ammonia to promote"