“The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.” WayNeedsTryingHumansFactsActionDivineFitMoralityStandardsLogicFilledScriptureSentimentsCategoriesClayPottersInexplicableStop TryingTidy Book:Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.” GivingHumansLittlesLongHas BeensRealMightBeautifulTurnsWaterImaginationHuman BeingsFireAirRocksShapesEssentialsElementsAngelGoldWingsTongueSubstanceDemonGraySubmitAgain And AgainPearlsMight Have BeenClayLuminousStrawsPebblesSpunThin AirAngel Wings Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.” GivingHumansArtSubjectsBackgroundsLandscapeApplesClayTorsoCezanneGoya Author:W. H. Auden
“The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.” KnowsMenMindHumansJesusChristKnow HowMysteryJesus ChristFacultyHuman MindClaySubjection Author:Brigham Young
“Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.” HumansMadeLightFacesGloryShiningSilentConvictionNobleGoldenClayShrinesIndefinable Author:Honore de Balzac