“The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.” IfsKnowsShouldDoeWholeUnderstandingPrayerTeachingObjectsAmountTestsUltimateSalvationTheologyKnowing GodLeading MeKnowledge Of God Author:Martyn
“Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.” ThinkingHeavenObjectsOughtShadowTestsBluePaintAtmosphereIsolatedSunlightTubesDomes Book:Monet: a retrospective Source: Monet: a retrospective
“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.” MenNeedsForceLossGriefFireObjectsCircumstancesTestsAbsolutesEndureAbsenceSeparationBelovedIndifferenceCrucibleGrief Loss Book:Max Source: Max
“But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.” ArtFormSimpleObjectsTestsContemplationWorks Of ArtCategoriesRealisticPersistIdealismIdealistic Author:Herbert Read