Marianne

“Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?”
― Walt Whitman

“Go ahead and make me more like jesus, whatever the cost. But please, when I feel like I can't stand anymore and cry out "Stop!" Will you ignore my quotation mark stock quotation mark and remember that today I said "Go ahead"?”
― Helen Roseveare, Give Me This Mountain: An Autobiography

“EVERY TRUE CHRISTIAN IS A SOLDIER—of Christ—a hero "par excellence!" Braver than the bravest—scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

THE OTHERWISE CHRISTIAN IS A CHOCOLATE CHRISTIAN! Dissolving in water and melting at the smell of fire.”
― C.T. Studd, The Chocolate Soldier: Enriched edition. Or, Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity

“If you don't desire to meet the Devil during the day, meet Jesus before dawn.”
― CT Studd