“God did not give me my life to throw away.”
Charlotte Brontë book Jane Eyre
Source: Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 35
Tears and Saints (1937)
“God did not give me my life to throw away.”
Charlotte Brontë book Jane Eyre
Source: Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 35
“Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
"Little Earthquakes".
Songs
“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians
Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 https://klara.be/leopold-ii-aflevering-2-0 ISBN 9789463962094
“Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die”
Thomas Bracken (1843–1898) poet
"God's Own Country" (circa 1885)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 183.
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”
Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral
Appended to a variant of the Serenity Prayer in The Armed Forces Prayer Book (1951)