"MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP."

-- Shane Claiborne

#Beautiful Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?”
“Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2014). “The Stochastic Man”, p.70, Open Road Media
“You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.”
“Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.”
“. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.”
“I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.”
“If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, itâ€™s sort of a magpie aestheticâ€”I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. Itâ€™s not that Iâ€™m interested in children that much or photographing themâ€”itâ€™s just that they were thereâ€¦”

Source : "Dog Bone Prints: Sally Mann". Art in the Twenty-First Century Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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