Robert Cormier book The Chocolate War
Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 254
Journal of Discourses 19:58 (April 5, 1877).
Robert Cormier book The Chocolate War
Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 254
Saint Patrick (385–461) 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
The Confession (c. 452?)
Context: I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time.
And it was there of course that one night in my sleep I heard a voice saying to me: "You do well to fast: soon you will depart for your home country." And again, a very short time later, there was a voice prophesying: "Behold, your ship is ready."' And it was not close by, but, as it happened, two hundred miles away, where I had never been nor knew any person. And shortly thereafter I turned about and fled from the man with whom I had been for six years, and I came, by the power of God who directed my route to advantage (and I was afraid o nothing), until I reached that ship.
“The Voice had promised me that, as soon I came to the King, he would receive me.”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
Second public examination (22 February 1431)
Trial records (1431)
Context: The Voice had promised me that, as soon I came to the King, he would receive me. Those of my party knew well that the Voice had been sent me from God; they have seen and known this Voice, I am sure of it. My King and many others have also heard and seen the Voices which came to me: there were there Charles de Bourbon and two or three others. There is not a day when I do not hear this Voice; and I have much need of it. But never have I asked of it any recompense but the salvation of my soul.
George Fox (1624–1691) English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Quaker Faith and Practice http://www.quaker.org.uk/qfp/chap19/19.01.html#19.02, Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends <br class="br">Context: But as I had forsaken the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those esteemed the most experienced people; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition. And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition"; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory; for all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief as I had been, that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, and faith, and power. Thus when God doth work, who shall let [hinder] it? and this I knew experimentally [through experience].
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"Germinal" in Vale and Other Poems (1931)