“Son Roper, I thank Our Lord, the field is won.”

Quiet triumph after deciding that conscience had prevailed over fear · Remark to William Roper after resisting pressure to take the oath (Roper’s Life)

• Conscience
• Faith
• Victory

“I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith, I long not to live.”

Declaration of harmless intent and readiness to accept death if innocence is insufficient · Letter to Margaret Roper, account of interrogation

• Conscience
• Integrity
• Life

“My case was such in this matter through the clearness of my own conscience that though I might have pain I could not have harm, for a man may in such a case lose his head and not have harm.”

Distinguishing bodily suffering from true spiritual harm when conscience is clear · Letter to Margaret Roper, from the Tower, June 1535

• Conscience
• Faith
• Suffering

“The clearness of my conscience has made my heart hop for joy.”

Finding unexpected joy in the certainty of a clear conscience amid imprisonment · Letter to Margaret Roper, from the Tower, 1534

• Conscience
• Joy
• Peace

“I never intend, God being my good Lord, to pin my soul to another man’s back, not even the best man that I know this day living: for I know not where he may hap to carry it.”

Personal responsibility for conscience cannot be delegated to any other person · Dialogue with his daughter Margaret, Tower of London, August 1534

• Conscience
• Faith
• Responsibility

“I die the King's good servant, and God's first.”

Expressing loyalty to conscience and faith above worldly authority · Final words, as recorded in contemporary accounts

• Conscience
• Courage
• Faith