IF WE WANT PEACE , we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope. THICH NHAT HANH
THE MOST COMMON FORM OF DESPAIR IS NOT BEING WHO YOU ARE.
PEOPLE demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
LIFE is not a problem to be solved but a reality tp be experienced.
THE UNHAPPY PERSON is never present to themselves because they always live in the past or the future. SOREN KIERKEGAARD.
YOUR DIET is not only what you eat. It is what you watch, what you listen to, what you read, and the people you hang around. Pay attention to what you feed your soul, not just your stomach.
MATT McMILLEN
IN GRATITUDE WAS CONDEMNED . . .the sinfulness of pride and notably lust was pointed out — together with the proverbial fact that it “goes before a fall.”
BLAISE PASCAL 1623-1662 “PENSES” “THE MIND ON FIRE”
TRUTH is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
PEOPLE almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
THE MORE I SEE OF MANKIND, THE MORE I PREFER MY DOG.
IN DIFFICULT TIMES CARRY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IN YOUR HEART.
JESUS CHRIST CAME TO TELL MEN that they have no enemies but themselves.
IF we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man?
THE SUPREME FUNCTION OF REASON IS TO SHOW MAN THAT SOME THINGS ARE BEYOND REASON.
BEING UNABLE TO CURE DEATH, wretchedness and ignorance men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
WHAT A VAST DIFFERENCE there is between knowing God and loving Him.
KIND WORDS DO NOT COST MUCH. YET THEY ACCOMPLISH MUCH.
HUMAN BEINGS do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
MEN never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
LORD help me do great things as though they were little since I do them with your power; and little things as though they were great since I do them in your name!
WHEN INTUITION AND LOGIC AGREE, YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT.
IN FAITH there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
KNOWING GOD without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing
AUGUSTE RODIN 1840-1917 “Father of modern Sculpture”.
THE MAIN THING is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.
THE ARTIST MUST CREATE A SPARK before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
THE MORE SIMPLE WE ARE, THE MORE COMPLETE WE BECOME.
THE HUMAN BODY is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
THE WORK OF ART is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn’t needed.
NOTHING IS A WASTE OF TIME IF YOU USE THE EXPERIENCE WISELY.
LOVE YOUR CALLING WITH PASSION — IT IS THE MEANING OF YOUR LIFE.
ART is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
PATIENCE IS ALSO A FORM OF ACTION.
ART IS CONTEMPLATION. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.