“We hope the truth will visit our minds, not among the crowds, but in an isolated place, in the middle of nowhere! But the truth is that the truth can visit us anywhere, anytime!”
“They lived in a sun-faded trailer on what felt like the edge of the world,
where the sky pressed so close that it seemed possible to reach out and touch it. But it also seemed possible to suffocate from it weighing down on them.”
Source: The Westerners: An Aether Gun Story
“Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called multiple personality disorder. As dramatic as its symptoms are, the internal splitting and emergence of distinct identities experienced in DID represent only the extreme end of the spectrum of mental life.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.”
Source: What is Mind?
“We believed in this country in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and risked everything on it.”
“Mercy flows from the wounds of Christ to heal a wounded world.”
Source: I TALKED TO GOD TODAY: 4 Week Devotional Prayer Journal Pain, Suffering and Daily Living
“For if any adversity, grief, or sickness, or loss of children, corn, cattle, or liberty happen unto them, by and by they exclaim upon witches.”
Source: The Penguin Book of Witches
“Such faithless people (I say) are also persuaded that neither hail nor snow, thunder nor lightning, rain nor tempestuous winds come from the heavens at the commandment of God, but are raised by are raised by the cunning and power of witches and conjurers; insomuch as a clap of thunder, or a gale of wind is no sooner heard, but either they run to ring bells, or cry out to burn witches, or else burn considerate things, hoping by the smoke thereof to drive the Devil out of the air, as though spirits could be frightened away with such external toys.”
Source: The Penguin Book of Witches
“It is not the sort of place where one would expect to find a witch. But a witch did live there, though she is not buried there.”
Source: The Penguin Book of Witches