Hans Hinrich Wendt famous quotes

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.
-- Hans Hinrich Wendt

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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.