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A pioneer preacher was called to conduct the funeral for a man who never entered the church building while he lived. As the pallbearers neared the meetinghouse door, the old preacher stood in the doorway and beckoned saying: "Gentlemen, I have never taken an undue advantage of any living person, and I am not going to begin imposing on the dead. If this man were living he would not enter this building. Put him down right there and let us respect him enough to finish his earthly pilgrimage as he lived it."

The service was conducted from the doorway, with the casket resting on the church-house lawn. Perhaps the preacher was a bit "hard," but he certainly had a point. Better think about dying and eternity while we live.

Compiled by Ted Kyle and John Todd

Whoops – I Wish I hadn't said that!
A Quotation that the speaker probably wishes he could take back.

"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet"

- Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin

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