The heart may move its pinions freely and easily, and return to God." "Hear me, Anne, hear," said Catharine in a low and hurried voice.

"A terrible danger threatens you! The king has given orders to move you, by means of the rack, to recant." "Well, and what more ?" asked Anne, with smiling face.
"Unfortunate, you know not what you are saying! You know not what fearful agonies await you! You know not the power of pains, which are perhaps still mightier than the spirit, and may overcome it." "And if I did know them now, what would it avail me ?" asked Anne Askew.
"You say they will put me to the rack.

Well, then, I shall have to bear it, for I have no power to change their will." "Yet, Anne, yet you have the power! Retract what you have said, Anne! Declare that you repent, and that you perceive that you have been deluded! Say that you will recognize the king as lord of the Church; that you will swear to the six articles, and never believe in the Pope of Rome.

Ah, Anne, God sees your heart and knows your thoughts.

You have no need to make them known by your lips.