“I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.
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George Whitefield4
English minister and preacher 1714–1770Related quotes
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Interview with Tony Schwartz in Playboy (February 1984) p. 166
Context: I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don't know why I'm writing what I'm writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it. Once you take a piece of musical information, there are certain implications that it automatically contains — the implication of that phrase elongated, contracted, or inverted or in another time signature. So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.
“I think God didn't put eyes on my face because he took his time to put eyes in my soul.”
Leandro Díaz (1928–2013) Colombian musician
[Revista Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata, http://www.elvallenato.com/artistas/biografia.php?artista=120&mas=Leandro%20Diaz, Leandro Díaz, Revista Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata, 2001, 2008-03-26, Spanish]
“"I will just wag my finger at him", he said, putting it on the trigger.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts
Pogrożę mu tylko palcem – rzekł, kładąc go na cynglu.
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Note to Stanza 27
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
Context: I have said that God is pleased with nothing but love; but before I explain this, it will be as well to set forth the grounds on which the assertion rests. All our works, and all our labours, how grand soever they may be, are nothing in the sight of God, for we can give Him nothing, neither can we by them fulfil His desire, which is the growth of our soul. As to Himself He desires nothing of this, for He has need of nothing, and so, if He is pleased with anything it is with the growth of the soul; and as there is no way in which the soul can grow but in becoming in a manner equal to Him, for this reason only is He pleased with our love. It is the property of love to place him who loves on an equality with the object of his love. Hence the soul, because of its perfect love, is called the bride of the Son of God, which signifies equality with Him. In this equality and friendship all things are common, as the Bridegroom Himself said to His disciples: I have called you friends, because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.