Brian Westerbur

“How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Many of these trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where there were singing groves.”
― JRR Tolkien

“For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and every part of it.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will