12 Quotes by Jane Grey

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    Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.That Thou from Human Woes is free,The bitter cup I drink today,Tomorrow may be drunk by thee.

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    God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

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    I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

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    Out of obedience to you and my mother I have grievously sinned. Now I willingly relinquish the crown. May I not go home?

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    Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

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    Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

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    The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

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    I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

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