We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
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ARTHUR LICHTENBERGER without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience. And without God, dem... RONALD REAGAN One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often ... CRISS JAMI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believ... ERNEST DIMNET You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believ... ERNEST DIMNET Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God"... FREDERICK WARD KATES Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and th... MOHANDAS GANDHI If we can accept those who disagree with us, who are hurt and full of misunderstandings, we must tre... GREG GORDON If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and al... WILLIAM LAW Only as we turn from the without to the silence of the within, can we hope to make conscious union w... STEVEN ESPINOSA We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irra... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I don't know if I believe in God just as much as I don't know if gravity exists. All I know is that ... KATE MILLER Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without ... BLAISE PASCAL God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not con... GIACOMO CASANOVA My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son o... MAHATMA GANDHI The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery withou... BLAISE PASCAL [A true atheist is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is... FREDERICK BUECHNER In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believ... NICK VUJICIC What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business w... BROTHER LAWRENCE The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in rel... ERNST JüNGER We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and th... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature tha... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Concluding a short series on prayer: He that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everyt... WILLIAM LAW Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with... ERIC METAXAS Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 Can we believe that God ever modifies His act... C. S. LEWIS Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve ... JEAN N. GROU Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's th... EBEN ALEXANDER Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color. Just as God too lets ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: / But as we were allowed of... BIBLE God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy... SOCRATES We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, a... BROTHER LAWRENCE We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly,... BROTHER LAWRENCE By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the ... JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased.... AIDEN WILSON TOZER Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays a... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. INDONESIA123 Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e... JULIANA OF NORWICH Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som... JEANNE D'ARC Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word... MONICA JOHNSON Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 In saying God is there, we are saying Go... FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we ... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about t... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of ever... YOSSI SARID The doctrine of justification by faith (a Biblical truth, and a blessed relief from sterile legalism... A. W. TOZER I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part ... EUGENE H. PETERSON With reference to the elect we might distinguish between three classes. First, there are those who a... MARTIN LUTHER Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us... C.S. LEWIS For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was ... BIBLE
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MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ... MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar... MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j... MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ... MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ... MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a... MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE