Matthew Leonard

“He told of visiting Nancy in the recovery room. “She was asleep when Dick and I got there. Suddenly, as we were standing by her bed, there was a little movement of her body. Her eyes didn’t open, but I heard a tiny voice say, ‘My breast is gone.’ Barely conscious because of her anesthesia, Nancy somehow had sensed we were there. She was devastated by the loss of her breast—not because she was worried about herself, but because she was worried about me and how I would feel about her as a woman. ‘It doesn’t matter,’ I said. ‘I love you.’ Then I leaned over and kissed her softly, and repeated that it made no difference to me. But seeing that sadness in her eyes, it was all I could do to avoid breaking up again.”
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life

“Do good everywhere, wherever you may be. Some of you are going to the ocean for a vacation; do not go without a lot of gospel tracts, and do not go without seeking an opportunity, when you are sitting on the beach, to talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Following Christ: Losing Your Life for His Sake