"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."

-- Albrecht Durer

#Blessing Quotes #Talent Quotes #Given Quotes

“Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.”
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
“This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but donâ€™t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.”

Source : "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.
“The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.”

Source : Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”
“For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.”
“In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well”
“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”

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