Quote#Death
For the Name of Jesus and the protection of the Church I am ready to…
Quote byThomas Becket · 1119–1171
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Edward Grim's account of the Murder of Thomas Becket.
English (original)
For the Name of Jesus and the protection of the Church I am ready to embrace death.
— Thomas Becket
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I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. But in the name of Almighty God, I forbid you to hurt my people whether clerk or lay.
There has been no satisfaction, and I will not absolve them.
Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth;
But see! the pains begin to fly; Tho’ Venus bled she could not die: See the new phœnix point her eyes, And lovelier from her ashes rise.
'Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play! Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!
Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.