Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Death-song of Uther Pendragon
Context: May the countenance of Prydain be bright for my guidance.
Sovereign of heaven, let my messages not be rejected.
“Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.”
“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 226.
“If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.”
Source: Don't Die, My Love
"Eyes", pp. 98–99
The Colour of Life and Other Essays (1896)
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.”
Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
Reported in Charlie Jones, Bob Kelly, The Tremendous Power of Prayer (2000) p. 46.
16 July 1848
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: To adore, to understand, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: there is my law my duty, my happiness, my heaven. Let come what come will — even death. Only be at peace with self, live in the presence of God, in communion with Him, and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do nothing! If death gives me time, so much the better. If its summons is near, so much the better still; if a half-death overtake me, still so much the better, for so the path of success is closed to me only that I may find opening before me the path of heroism, of moral greatness and resignation. Every life has its potentiality of greatness, and as it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.35
Response to a journalist's question about what his message to the world was. Mahatma: Life of Gandhi 1869-1948 (1968) Reel 13 http://www.gandhiserve.org/video/mahatma/commentary13.html
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
