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Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion QUOTES

Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion QUOTES

1 " Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them. "

― Amy Rachel Peterson , Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

2 " I’d decided last night, and strengthened my resolve this morning, to have eyes for no man but Jesus. If intimacy was really what He desired most, then I desired it too. I felt strangely free from life as I had known it… "

― Amy Rachel Peterson , Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

3 " The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before. "

― Amy Rachel Peterson , Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

4 " Sometimes one awakes with the knowledge that unrecallable dreams have been lining your sleep, and though you feel rested, it is the rest of one who has lived for hours in an alternate world, another realm. "

― Amy Rachel Peterson , Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

5 " I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful. "

― Amy Rachel Peterson , Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

6 " Above and about me all was space. The sky was hazy blue, and from this vantage point, I could see all the way down the Via Roma, at the far end of the forum, to the bay. Its waters sparkled invitingly and I slowed, feeling my amictus fluid with my motion and the moving air. Even the cobbled ground seems happy to bounce its sound of hurrying feet to the buildings ringing us, and hear it back again. "

― Amy Rachel Peterson , Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion