We have to learn

"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life."
~Vincent van Gogh

God has no grandchildren

"God has no grandchildren, only Children."
~Corrie ten Boom

Early fruit

"The fig tree forms its early fruit;

    the blossoming vines spread their fragrance."

~Song of Songs 2:13

We are frail, fearfully and wonderfully made

"We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made 

Forged in the fires of human passion 

Choking on the fumes of selfish rage 

And with these our hells and our heavens 

So few inches apart 

We must be awfully small 

And not as strong as we think we are."

~Rich Mullins

Those who think ..

"Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way.
Those who think that they have reached their goal, have missed it.
Those who think they are saints, are demons."

~Henri Nouwen

The supreme artist

"Jesus is the supreme artist, more of an artist than all others..

One cannot do better than hold onto the thought of God through everything,

under all circumstances...

at all places, at all times, and try to acquire more knowledge

about Him,

which one can do from the Bible as well as from all other things."

~Vincent van Gogh, 1882

At the beginning

"I now consider myself to be at the beginning of the beginning

of making something serious."

~Vincent van Gogh

Like a spring

"The Lord will guide you always;
You will be like a well-watered garden,

like a spring whose waters never fail."

~Hosea 6:3

Only by God, the Creator

"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled
by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator,
made known through Jesus."

~Blaise Pascal, Pensées

A Beggar

"A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy."
~Brennan Manning