“Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.”
“Discipline is currency for purchasing your progress”
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”
“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.”
“The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.”
“After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me.”