ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY PART 151
(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)
Quotes continued ......
Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry the eighth, who had her executed): "Oh God, have pity on my soul, Oh God, have pity on my soul."
Henry Prince of Wales: "Tie a rope around my body, pull me out of bed and lay me in ashes, that I might die with repentant prayers to an offended God. O! I in vain wish for that time I lost with you and others in vain recreations."
Socrates: "All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation on which to sail, perhaps some divine word."
Tony Hancock: (British commedian) "Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That is the bitterest blow of all."
Phillip 111 King of France: "What an account I shall have to give to God! How I should have liked to live otherwise to how I have lived."
Voltaire: ( Skeptic philosopher ) "I am abandoned by God and man, I will give you half of what I am worth, if you will give me six months of life. Then I shall go to hell and you will go with me. O Christ! O Jesus Christ!"This talented French writer once said of Jesus
"Curse the wretch."
next post Thursday 14th
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