Bernard Berenson Quotes
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Quotes to Explore
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
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England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on...but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties?
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The spectator is a dying animal.
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Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
