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George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#george-macdonald #suffering #art

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#life

Simply surviving in this business is a feat. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#feat #simply #surviving

Be the person you wish to be, not who you are told to be. ↗

— Anna Glazebrook

#inspirational #life #attitude

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#suffering #wisdom #art

Question everything, unless it's the answer ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisdom #life

So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m not talking about a quick, Help me Lord, Sunday’s a comin’ prayer. When I get stuck I get up from my desk to head for my closet. Literally. If I‘m at the office I go over to a corner that I have deemed my closet away from home. I get on my knees and remind God that this was not my idea, it was His… None of this is new information to God… Then I ask God to show me if there is something He wants to say to prepare me for what He wants me to communicate to our congregation. I surrender my ideas, my outline and my topic. Then I just stay in that quiet place until God quiets my heart… Many times I will have a breakthrough thought or idea that brings clarity to my message. . . Like you, I am simply a mouthpiece. Getting stuck is one way God keeps me ever conscious of that fact. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#inspiration #prayer #writing-life #writing-process #change

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#black #certain #certain feeling #cotton #developed

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#asking #asking questions #been #i #ken

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend--a lousy poem. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#dancing #life #singing #soul #writing