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Brother Bradford, as long as I shall understand thou art on thy journey by God's grace, I shall call upon our Heavenly Father for Christ's sake to let thee safely home, and then, good brother, speak you, and pray for the remnant which are to suffer for Christ's sake, according to that thou shalt then know more clearly."—Bishop Ridley writing to Bradford the Martyr.

"We bear with life for the sake of Him who suffered both life and death for us."—Pascal.

"Rabia, a devout Arabian woman, being asked in her last illness, how she endured the extremity of her sufferings, made answer, 'They who look upon God's face do not feel his hand.'"—Milne's Palm Leaves.