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Friday, November 3, 2006 |
Richard Hooker
I came across a quote this morning from Richard Hooker, a 17th century Anglican Theologian whose writing "argued for a middle way (a "Via Media") between the positions of the Roman Catholics and the Puritans." I don't really know anything about Hooker, but this quote from the online Book of Common Prayer caught my eye.
"God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright."
I sure hope so...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 |
Writing for Love
"Writing a book is like rearing children--willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love. Willpower is a weak idea; love is strong. You don't have to scourge yourself with a cat-o'-nine-tails to go to the baby. You go to the baby out of love for that particular baby. That's the same way you go to your desk. There's nothing freakish about it. Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do."
Annie Dillard. "To Fashion a Text." From Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Ed. Willaim Zinsser.
9:07:33 PM
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Monday, October 30, 2006 |
Rich Mullins: The Most Important Thing
Yesterday in our Bible class on The Call, we talked about identity, and the centrality of the call to our sense of identity. One of the guys in the class, an artist who does percussion and leather working, sent me this quote from singer-songwriter Rich Mullins. My friend said he thought I would like it. He's right.
From an interview by Sheila Walsh:
SW: I want you to imagine, if you will, that we were in Seattle, in
a little café. Nobody bothering us, no gig to do, nobody pestering
you. We just sat down to cappuccino. Somebody said to you, 'What's
the most important thing... what are the most important things in
your life?'
RM: At any given moment it might be slightly different, but I would
imagine that nothing would be more important than becoming fully who
you were supposed to be. You know what I mean? For me, that's
what salvation is all about.
Heart to Heart Interview
Sheila Walsh
Heart to Heart, Christian Broadcasting Network
May 20, 1992
Copyright 1992 by the Christian Broadcasting Network
Yeah, I want to be saved...
7:37:48 AM
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Friday, October 13, 2006 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Two great quotes for artists to wrestle with, both from Solzhenitsyn's 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech delivered to the Swedish Academy.
"There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe."
I first saw this quote in an article in which the writer had seen a translation that put it like this:
"It is useless to assert what one's heart does not believe."
The quote at the end of the speech is powerful.
"One word of truth outweighs the world."
9:36:28 AM
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Saturday, October 1, 2005 |
A quote by Os Guinness
"A spinning coin cannot spin forever, nor can our minds remain undecided forever, since not to decide is itself a decision, and as the coin will come down only heads or tails, so we also have only two options, not three or more. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our desires."
--Os Guinness
11:02:46 PM
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
Resource of Art Quotations
Check it out...this resource claims to be the biggest resource of art quotations anywhere. Might be...
click the link in the title to check it out...
11:08:42 AM
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
Quote
"Rigor is the bone structure of suppleness."
Bishop Albert Rouet in Liturgy and the Arts, speaking of freedom.
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