“In the same way a potter signs her work with a stamp, God signs His masterpieces.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“We are only human and clay is only clay.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“What God did, however, was subject his written word to the same historical process as he did with his incarnate Word, Jesus. The Bible is both a divine and human entity: divine in its inspiration and preservation, human in the sense of God's subjecting it to the historical process and entrusting it to the church. In this way, writes George Eldon Ladd, "the Bible is the Word of God given in the words of men in history.”
“My mind is confused, I shudder in panic. My night of pleasure has turned into terror. Setting the table to let the watchmen watch, eating and drinking, “Arise, officers, anoint the shield.” For thus said my Lord to me: Go, station the lookout, and let him tell what he sees. He will see a pair of horsemen...and he will call out like a lion. My lord, I stand on the lookout constantly during the day, and I am stationed at my post all the nights. Behold, it is coming: a chariot with a man, a pair of horsemen. Each says loudly, “It has fallen! Babylonia has fallen!”
Source: Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet
“A oneness-in-unity deity's will, much like his own relationality, seeks to relate closely in giving his communications, but an Absolute Oneness deity will maintain his lofty position allowing only a downward communication. Both communicate consistently with their covenant or contract nature.”
Source: Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract
“This book is designed to strengthen your faith and give you another angle from which to view your relationship with God.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“The clay doesn't know what temperature it needs to be fired to; that is the potter's job. We don't know what kinds of trials we need to undergo to become the person God wants us to be, but He does!”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“Creativity doesn't stop when we get that one project right, it is ingrained in our lives--inescapable.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“Don't ruin someone's reputation just to save your reputation.”
“I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I am not, and neither are you, I must accept, and so should you, that there are differences between us that we were born into. Why do we focus on these differences? Put your hand in mine and let us accept that our differences should not come in the way of us uniting for the basic human values that we share: compassion, peacefulness, respect, honesty, innocence, humbleness and sympathy. Does a baby born here smile differently from a baby born anywhere in the world? Do they cry any differently? We may not speak the same language and we may not live the same lifestyle, but a smile I put on my face when I see you puts a smile on your face before you can even think of it. Now, THAT is powerful. I hope that every sense of arrogance or greed in my heart is deviated to a sense of humility, so the wall of ignorance to the real issues in the world can be shattered by the common rights that I share with all of my brothers and sisters in humanity.”
Source: Mind Platter