He who could not melt into an abandonment of grief and love over one on whom the shadow of the last hour rested; he who would spring headlong into no estranging sea to reach one loved and lost and marvellously brought near again; he who can share the festal wine of life, but has no appetite for agony, no thirsting of the soul to bear another's pain-these can never understand Jesus.
"The Empire of Love"
W. J. Dawson
More impassable than the gulf of distance with the estranging sea, more separating than the gulf of death, is the great gulf fixed between souls through deceit and shame.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
There beneath the "unplumbed, salt estranging sea" lies Stephen, the boy Prophet-who even while the tempest was hurling his army to death on the open sea, proved the sincerity of his piety; for clinging to a spar, while drifting to a certain doom, he led his little flock in song and prayer, and even as wave after wave dashed over the deck, above the roar of the tempest could his clear triumphant young voice be heard-"In the name of Christ and His cross, be brave.
"Ten Boys from History"
Kate Dickinson Sweetser