"It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more."

--

Source : Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.237

Henry Martyn

#Country Quotes #Attachment Quotes #Earth Quotes

“With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.”
“I used to have more meltdowns backstage than I do [now].... It's not that it was ever cool, but right now, it just seems very uncool to have a meltdown. I'm not saying I'll never have one! But I've learnt to stop it just before it happens.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”
“I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any particular country. I had come to a nice space with the imaginary Cuba or the imaginary America that I thought existed.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.”
“Hard times always lead to something great.”
“When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

You may also like:

Adoniram Judson
Missionary
Charles Simeon
Charles Studd
Missionary
David Brainerd
Missionary
Hudson Taylor
Missionary
Jim Elliot
Missionary
John Gibson Paton
Author
Samuel Marinus Zwemer
William Carey
Missionary