This collection of 700 quotes includes the last words of commoners, atheists, poets, and politicians along with noted Christians and martyrs. Ready reference source for the pastor or public speaker.
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The last words of the dying have long captured the popular imagination.
This classic collection glows with Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place, and heart-breaking insight into the desires and contradictions of humanity.
Christian,” supposedly the parting shot of Casanova, of all people.8 There is controversy even about the all-but-sacrosanct wording, though not the sentiment, of Nathan Hale's universally known words pronounced under the gallows, ...
Saints for Sinners
Executed August 29, 1933 Hoffman did not want his eighty-two-year-old mother to know that her son was a murderer, so he told her that he was in California. An unidentified person told Mrs. Hoffman the truth in time for her to visit ...
... Prophet (on Jacinta Marto), Mary of the Americas, The Seven Last Words and Saints and Sinners of Calvary, as well as magazine articles in Our Sunday Visitor, Soul, Priest, Pastoral Life, Homiletic and Pastoral Review,and Extension.
The agreement among the accounts is remarkable in this fascinating collection of thoughts and experiences that shed light on the life that awaits us after death.
Warry had arranged a rope above Mr. Whitman's head, in the bed, which was attached to a bell below. He would pull this rope after he became weak, and thus ring the bell to attract attention. Prior to this time he had used his heavy cane ...
Many Internet lists and books have endeavored to collect "last words," however these works almost exclusively do not cite historic or vetted sources for the majority of the quotations and many of the "reputed" last words are doubtful, ...