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“Remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and gave you the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation. Creativity is His gift to you and the 'raw materials' to be put together in various ways are His gift to you as well.”
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“That's poetic in its malevolence”
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“Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.”
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.
The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.”
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.”
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy- or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others...
the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities.”
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities.”
― The Hidden Art of Homemaking
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