“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.” ArtAgeSpiritualPurposeTalentBalanceFairsWeightEncouragementVanityOur TimeIdolsSwearDeprivedUtilityAllegianceNoisyVanity Fair Author:Friedrich Schiller
“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.” GivingChildrenBookFacesSpiritualForeverMagicTalentBrokenGeniusShadowMirrorsShiningBreatheFeaturesOver ItImperfectCountenanceVenusSpenser Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.” WorldGivingStoriesSpiritualJoySecretLordTalentSecurityReturnResourcesEarsIndiaAskingOne Word Book:Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II
“People getting ready to go to jobs that they don’t like, jobs that are making them sick. You see when you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you are stretching for and reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone, you’ll find out some talents and abilities you have that you didn’t know you have.” PeopleKnowsJobsSpiritualGoalAbilityTalentReadyComfortSickSuicideReachingZoneComfort ZoneStretchingTalents And Abilities Author:Les Brown
“All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.” SpiritualLordTalentMastersAdvantageLays Author:Roger Williams