“Tear down your border of thicket and vinecreating a free world, yours and mine.”

“Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”

“If they burn your school, burn their children, if they destroy your buildings destroy their people if they tear down your homes tear down their families.”

“I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.”

“I promise that because of your faithful response to the call to spread the gospel, He will bind up your broken hearts, dry your tears, and set you and your families free. That is my missionary promise to you and your missionary message to the world.”

“Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.”