Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925).
Context: Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Source: Autobiography of Mother Jones
“With spirits dead why should men living fight?”
Canto XIII, stanza 39 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”
“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
Source: Running with Scissors
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
These New Heretics, Sermon 66 on The Song of Songs. http://www.pathsoflove.com/bernard/songofsongs/sermon66.html
Context: Look at those detractors. Look at those dogs. They ridicule us for baptizing infants, praying for the dead, and asking the prayers of the saints. They lose no time in cutting Christ off from all kinds of people to both sexes, young and old, living and dead. They put infants outside the sphere of grace because they are too young to receive it, and those who are full grown because they find difficulty in preserving chastity. They deprive the dead of the help of the living, and rob the living of the prayers of the saints because they have died. God forbid! The Lord will not forsake his people who are as the sands of the sea, nor will he who redeemed all be content with a few, and those heretics....
