The art of being

"Peace is first of all the art of being."

~Henri Nouwen

Cannot bear

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

~T.S. Eliot

Not an adventurer by choice

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

~Vincent van Gogh

So like fear

"My idea of God is not a divine idea.

It has to be shattered time after time.

He shatters it Himself."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Have a bright day

"Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to 
have a bright day without the sun."
~A.W. Tozer

Learnt to love

"When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest,

I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."

~C.S. Lewis

(Parents 50th Anniversary)

A bottle of Port

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy.

I always knew a bottle of Port would do that.

If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable,

I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."

~C.S. Lewis

Weeping a little

"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets oneself be tamed."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A deeper meaning

"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."

~Vincent van Gogh

detail "Amandelbloesem" - Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

"I want to touch people with my art.

I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'."

~Vincent van Gogh

To console those

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

~Vincent van Gogh

Admire as much as you can

"We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.."

~Vincent van Gogh

"Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough."

~Vincent van Gogh