“You should utter words as though heaven were opened within them, and as though you did not put the word into your mouth, but as though you had entered the word.” Martin Buber
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Christian Art Quote #6
Consigned to the Seventh Circle
“We would like God’s way to be like our ways, His judgments to be like our judgments. It is hard for us to understand that He lavishly gives enormous talents to people we would consider unworthy, that He chooses His artists with as calm a disregard of surface moral qualifications as He chooses His saints.” Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water P. 26
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Christian Art Quote #5
“…to serve any discipline of art, be it to chip a David out of an unwieldy piece of marble, to take oils and put a clown on canvas, to write a drama about a young man who kills his father and marries his mother and suffers for these actions, to hear a melody and set the notes down for a string quartet, is to affirm meaning, despite all the ambiguities and tragedies and misunderstanding which surround us. ” Madeleine L’Engle, Walking On Water
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Christian Art Quotes #4
“Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don’t matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.” Jean Rhys
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Christian Art Quotes #2
Consigned to the Seventh Circle
“In art, either as creators or as particpators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten and some of the terrible things we are asked to endure, we who are children of God by adoption and grace.” Madeliene L’Engle, Walking on Water p. 11
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Christian Art quotes #1
“Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small comes to the artists and says, ‘Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.’ And the artists either says, ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord,’ and willingly becomes the bearer of the work or refuses…” Madeleine L’Engle, Walking On Water p. 10
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Weekly Photo Challenge: All That Glimmers
This week the Daily Post has challenged us to show our photos of SHINY THINGS.
You can click the underlined link to get to a host of shining photos.
Here are my photographs and thoughts on the matter.
“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life has sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold
Had you been as wise as bold,
Your in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been in’scroll’d
Fare you well: your suit is cold.’ Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!” Shakespeare, Merchant Of Venice
“But al thyng which that shyneth as the gold / Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told” Geoffrey Chaucer, Yeoman’s Tale
“Hyt is not al golde that glareth” Geoffrey Chaucer, The House Of Fame
The moments captured in shining brilliance may not be gold we can buy the world with, but the world itself could hardly compare with even a moment of memory captured in the glare of such a sun. JE Lillie
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Seeing Deep Red
Cee has challenged us to SEE RED…DEEP RED this week in her fun foto challenge.
You can see how much fun others had with this challenge by clicking the underlined link above. Here is my fotos of deeeeeeeeeeep red and I have added some deeeeper quotes to go with them. 🙂
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. Mignon McLaughlin
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller
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A Thursday Quote From P. Wrinkles
The sins of the whole world hung on the narrow beams of the cross
This quote came from last night’s service with our missionary friend David Porter. It hit me hard and left me saying, “WOW…JUST WOW!”
The abundant life is seldom an easy life. David Porter
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Hope Clouds #dailywalk #cloudscape #quotes
Whenever I feel old, or weak, or like my life just doesn’t measure up, I look to the clouds. In them I see a glimpse of eternity, a reminder that life is so much longer, and bigger, and more mysterious than these mortal bodies can perceive. JE Lillie
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