"If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event."

-- Hal Borland

#Song Quotes #Voice Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, â€œOnly a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.â€ Therefore it â€œhas no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.”
“What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”

Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”
“Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.”
“Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.”
“The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.”
“The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.”
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
“I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.”

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