Calvin Seerveld famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Beauty #Understanding #Needs
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Art #Names #Want
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Spiritual #Art #Wrestling
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Beach #Art #Children
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Christian #Hate #Vanity
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Christian #Fashion #Stupid
A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.
-- Calvin Seerveld

#Christian #Men #Community

I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
Beauty is transient and changes with time.
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

Calvin Seerveld famous quotes

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