Pat Barrett Quotes

It’s a liberating experience to think of God as an Artist. The joy He felt in creation. The care that was taken in the formation of the cosmos. The thoughtfulness and energy it would take to sculpt the mountains…

Pat Barrett

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• Artist
• Creation

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Together
  • Angels

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Art

• I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • God
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Walking

• Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Night
  • Lost

• 'You do your best, we do the rest.' That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Up
  • God
  • Rest

• Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God

• The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept 'God.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God

• Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Music
  • God
  • Business

• Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Up
  • God
  • Wish

• When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Believe
  • Grace

• Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Practice

• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Obsessed
  • Atom Bomb

• My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Church

• It’s a liberating experience to think of God as an Artist. The joy He felt in creation. The care that was taken in the formation of the cosmos. The thoughtfulness and energy it would take to sculpt the mountains…

  

  Pat Barrett
  • God
  • Joy
  • Artist