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“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”
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“I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”
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“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”
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“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”
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“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.”
Source : "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013. 
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“One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.”
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“Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.”
Source : 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)
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“Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.”
Source : Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns
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“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”
Source : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”
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“When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.”
