“Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.” ArtPrayerResultsAttentionArt IsExcellenceMinutiae Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.” WorldArtPrayerSpecialArt IsDiscoveryScripture Author:Joseph C Zinker
“I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.” LifeBelieveArtLyingReadingI BelievePrayerPrayingConsciousArt IsResponseBelieve In GodPraying To God Author:Reverend Malcolm Boyd
“All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.” ArtFormLiteraturePrayerBehindsArt IsActiveTheologyLuminousGreat Literature Author:Melissa Pritchard
“In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.” BelieveArtI BelievePrayerWiseHeardPaintingArt IsFranceMultitudesWorldlyDomainReproductionMessiahPresent DayCredoThis I BelieveAvenging Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.” WayArtFormArtistPrayerArt IsDanceGood Art Author:Frederick Busch
“Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.” IfsMindHeartMayArtReasonSpiritHateBornReligiousPrayerPrayingHolyArt IsAnd LoveSavedTheeHoly SpiritRejoiceInwardAssuranceI PrayAssertionThoroughGodlinessBorn AgainNo LoveMind ChangingPresuming Author:Charles Spurgeon