“Sacrifice your life rather than your word.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Variant: In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Source: There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: And from above a voice fused half in iron
Half in irony gives man a dreadful choice.
The role is his, it says, Man makes and loads his own strange dice,
They sum at his behest,
He dooms himself. He is his own sad jest.
Let go? Let be?
Why do you ask this gift from Me?
When, trussed and bound and nailed,
You sacrifice your life, your liberty
You hang yourself upon the tenterhook.
Pull free!

Source: The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)

Source: Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (1994), p. 302.

1999