And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

All I got to do is stay black and die.

Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish — that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.