“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.” WorldDesireArtistResponsibilityDutyDisciplineGoodnessWork OutGood WorkAestheticsSingularityCandorMusterUniversalityRadicalism Book:Epicurean Simplicity Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.” FactsDesireGraceGoodnessDues Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.” IfsMenMindHeartSoulShowsDesireSinDesignGoodnessBoundsCorruptionScaryBreatheHypocrisyWickedShakesDeceitRighteousnessEnginesWickednessFoulFetters Book:The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition) Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.” ThinkingHeartLongEarthChristianLife IsDesirePrayerPrayingGoodnessEternalApproachCreatorCeaseChristian LifeTendenciesThirst Author:Francois Fenelon
“... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.” LooksSeemsRunningDesireProveGoodnessBitterIntolerancePointingBadnessVindictive Author:J. E. Buckrose