Gerhard Tersteegen Quotes
He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
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Life is just a moment of time and it pass by
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Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.
