"To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers."
"When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child."
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Source: Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Rock Me To Sleep”
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