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“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Needs Should Art Soul Matter Spirit Desire Artist Wish Failing Painting Noble Your Soul Host Kindred Painting Art

Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.”

Humans Spirit Human Beings Deals Leader Failing Serious Perspective Betrayal Human Potential

Book:Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

Source: Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

“We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.”

Knows Wells Littles Spirit Perfect Lord Failing Weakness Kingdoms Diligent

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.”

Feels Heart May Soul Age Pain Spirit Dies Doubt Our Lives Failing Creation Flower Breaths Wave Checks Firm Thrill Trembling Frost Messengers Triumphant Keep The Faith Sad Soul

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.”

Men Way Spirit Failing Influence Holy Conscience Handle Holy Spirit

Author:David Brainerd

“Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.”

Giving Believe Doe Pain Spirit Animal Failing Please Weak Faculty Vegetables Perfume Boast Fragrance Revive Offending Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.”

Source: On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will

“I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.”

Ifs Mind Believe Heart Shows Spirit President Justice Failing My Heart Mercy Humble Gods Will Servant Show Me Heart And Mind Servant Of God

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.”

Ifs Giving Should Doe Enough Light Spirit Causes Enemy Failing Sacrifice Ready Duty And Love Defeat Suits Necks Daylight Despised Guile Love And Sacrifice

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.”

Littles Home Spirit Heaven Prayer Answers Failing Paradise Imperfection Answers To Prayer

Author:Ole Hallesby

“Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.”

Men Spirit Understanding Virtue Failing Conflict Prove Silent Every Man Peculiar Mastery Spirit Of God

Author:Friedrich Schleiermacher

“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.”

“I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.”

“The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.”

Doe Spirit Suffering Understanding Quality Failing Appreciate Embrace Appreciation Good Quality

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.”

Jobs Spirit Pay Creative Failing Tribute Creative Spirit

Book:Adventures of a White-Collar Man

Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man