Date: 1848

"When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain [...] "

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1868

"The pardon Thou hast bought for me, / Engrave it on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"My heart like wax before the fire / Dissolves; my life doth all expire / In agonizing groans!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"The gospel-faith Divine impart, / Which seals my pardon on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"Whose grace the pardon did bestow / And seal'd it on my conscience sure"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"And stamp in perfect peace and power / Thine image on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1888

"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."

— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

Date: 1888

"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."

— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

Date: 1922

"I plucked my soul out of its secret place, / And held it to the mirror of my eye, / To see it like a star against the sky, / A twitching body quivering in space, / A spark of passion shining on my face."

— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)

Date: 1939

"My thinking relates to theology like the blotting page to the ink. It has entirely soaked itself full with it. If the blotting paper had its way, nothing that is written would remain."

— Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)