Jacob Aue Sobol famous quotes

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  • The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  • Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

  • If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

  • All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

  • You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.

  • Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  • What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  • In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

  • A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

  • To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.