Quotes for Kingdom Artisans

"Thy will be done in art as it is in Heaven"   ---  Willa Cather

“ Genius is seldom recognized for what it is :
a great capacity for hard work .” ---- Henry Ford
(And similarly : )

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.” ------   Thomas Edison

“ He is not great who is not greatly good ” ----  Shakespeare

“The world does not need more Christian writers-
it needs more good writers and composers who are Christian.”
C. S. Lewis

“ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun
has risen not only because I see it, but because
by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis

“ It is not a question of our equipment but of our poverty,
not of what we bring with us, but of what God puts into us. ”
Oswald Chambers  ----  My Utmost For His Highest.

“ Prayer does not fit us for the greater work ;
prayer is the greater work.” -----   Oswald Chambers

“ Mercy has converted more souls than zeal
or eloquence orlearning or
all of them together. ” – Soren Kierkegaard

“ The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are
too strong to be broken. ” -----  Samuel Johnson 1709 –1784
( Of course this may refer to good habits as well as bad –v.g.h. )

“ To a poet, nothing is useless. ” ----  Samuel Johnson

“ The Lord sends no one away empty except those
who are full of themselves. ”  ---  Dwight L. Moody

“ Life is not so short but that there is always time for
courtesy and chivalry. ” -----  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know
how soon it will be too late.” --- Emerson

“ The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the
size of the cities, nor the crops – no, it is the kind of man
the country turns out. ”  --- Emerson

“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just. ” -----    Thomas Jefferson

“ That which is striking and beautiful is not always good,
but that which is good is always beautiful. ” --- Ninon de Lenclos

“ Exuberance is beauty. ” - William Blake

“ Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are
famous preservers of good looks.” ----  Charles Dickens

" Talents are best nurtured in solitude ; character is best formed
in the stormy billows of the world. ” ---- Goethe

“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character,
by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece –
by thought, choice, courage, and determination.” ------   H. Jackson Browne

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence .
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education is not, the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On' has solved and will always solve the
problems of the human race.”
- U.S. President - Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

“Christian love, either towards God or towards man ,
is an affair of the will.” – C.S.Lewis

“ Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak ;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ” - Winston Churchill

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person and it can never
be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God,
made known through Jesus Christ.”
– Blaise Pascal –
French mathematician, theologian, physicist, man of letters 1623 - 1662

“Prayer …the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
– Thomas Fuller 1600’s

“ Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. ” - T. Fuller

“Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither
praise nor blame.” – Thomas a Kempis

Also from the 1600’s … a Scottish minister – Samuel Rutherford wrote:
“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction,
I always look about for the wine.”