“God is Good… Jesus is Lord
Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus.. O-Others.. Y-Yourself”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year
“Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife.”
Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton (1700), line 18.
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“Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.”
Jack McDevitt book The Hercules Text
Source: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 63)
“It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.”
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
Captain Goree, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.355
The Killer Angels (1974)
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
I, 1
Confessions (c. 397)
“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
Variant: I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) Italian Dominican friar and preacher
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124
Context: God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
“To her Lord, her Father; her Husband, her Brother; his Servant his Child; his Wife, his Sister; and to express all that is humble, respectful and loving to her Abelard, Heloise writes this.”
Domino suo, imo Patri; Conjugi suo, imo Fratri; Ancilla sua, imo Filia; ipsius Uxor, imo Soror; Abaelardo Heloisa, &c. Abel. Op.
Heloise (1101–1164) French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess
Letter II : Heloise to Abelard, Heading
Letters of Abelard and Heloise