The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.
Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and. . . one moment after God commands them to stop.
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.
Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.
Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.
Our visions begin with our desires.
When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
To progress is always to begin again.