It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
~ Goethe
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
~ unknown
One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.
~ unknown
Don`t cry yet; there`s still God!
~ Carissa Cooper
Remember that the darkest hour only lasts 60 minutes
~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
~ Ludwig Von Beethoven
Spiritual warfare isn't just casting out demons; it's Spirit-controlled thinking and attitudes.
~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Doubt comes from a struggling mind. Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
The best translation of the word "love" is the name Jesus; That will tell us everything about love we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis
When you have exhausted all the possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
~ unknown
Creativity is a way of living Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers
When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.
~ Oswald Chambers
I loved Christmas until I grew up and realized I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
Poetry takes something that we know already and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot
Two classes of human beings defy psychological categorizing and are full of surprises: Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. Faith means believing the incredible, or it has no virtue at all.
~ G.K. Chesterton
When writing, be more or less specific
~ unknown
a children's book is any book a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Planting seeds inevitably changes my feelings about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
"Maybe you've not yet tasted your favorite food" (regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven)
This was my first piece of work in many, many, many years. I was sharing with a friend the fact that I used to write poetry back when I was young and unsaved. She encouraged me to start writing again. She gave me a box full of words on small magnetic pieces. [Magnetic Poetry®] Each piece had one word. I could put them together to make phrases. Then the phrases became poems.
"BEAUTIFUL ROSE" became my first poem in what has become a long line of work over the past few years. I found my way back, thanks to God, and the encouragement of that friend, Lisa LaLonde. I was inspired by her heart of worship, the music she created in Christ, and
by her testimony. This piece reflects how God restores things lost and makes them better. This was Lisa's story. This was my story. And now this was the story of my poetry.
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