Tammy Martin

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.”
― Vance Havner, Holy Desperation: Finding God in Your Deepest Point of Need

“Teddy Roosevelt, during the First World War, used to talk about hyphenated Americans. He was talking about German-Americans who had a divided allegiance, and he said, “If you’re an American and something else, you’re not an American.”
― Vance Havner, Holy Desperation: Finding God in Your Deepest Point of Need

“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.”
― robert m drake