Calvin Seerveld Quotes

It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.

Calvin Seerveld

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Start
  • Old
  • Late

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Home
  • Food
  • Generation

• My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Christian
  • Brand
  • Shoe

• It gets late early out there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Early
  • Late
  • Out

• We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Different
  • Generation

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• The more far-out artists, the better.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Better
  • More
  • Artists

• I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • World
  • Generation

• It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Stop

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned – by people who don't know me – or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: 'You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Proud
  • Christian
  • Humble

• I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.

  

  Jane Green
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • Father
  • Feeling

• We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

  

  Jeff Lindsay

• [On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Wind
  • Napoleon

• It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.

  

  Calvin Seerveld
  • Christian
  • Generation
  • Artists