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Quotes

I like to collect quotes. I collect them because they're interesting, not because I necessarily agree with them — but then there are the Biblical quotes. I can't argue with God. Well, sometimes I try.

If you have any favorites quotes — I'd love it if you'd share them.
Use the guestbook to send them to me.

The scriptural direction is singularly clear: give back to the Lord and to your neighbour the gifts the Lord has given you, in a ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5: 17-19), joyously redeeming the time despite the tears (Colossians 4: 5, 6).
Calvin Seerveld

"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed.
If you look within, you'll be depressed.
If you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!"
Corrie Ten Boom

The gift of Fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein.

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. The BibleMicah 6:8

It’s crucial that Christians develop a wild, sanctified imagination. Ken Medema

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. The Bible • Luke 10:21

A genuine aesthetic experience is something which transcends not only the sensible order (in which, however, it has its beginning) but also that of reason itself. It is a supranatural intuition of the latent perfection of things. Its immediacy outruns the speed of reasoning and leaves all analysis far behind. Thomas Merton — Art and Spirituality

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Rollo May

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Paint what you love!" Hans Rookmaaker

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