Anne Hutchinson

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?