“Think of thyself as a stranger and traveler on the earth, to whom none of the many affairs of this world belong and who has no permanent township on the globe.”

“The passion, God knows for what cause…disappeared, leaving no trace whatever behind it, except my heart wasted and ruined as if it had been scorched by a thousand lightnings”

“Only a perfect rose, has the power to persuade a perusal of its petals”

“One of the things I love about God's Word is that it has no expiration date.”

“Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?”

“Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are”

“No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle”