John Michael Talbot quotes

“The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.”
-- John Michael Talbot

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“I can look back at my darkest periods and realize that these were the times when the Lord was holding me closest. But I couldn't see His face becasue my face was in His breast...crying.”
-- John Michael Talbot

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“We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.”
-- John Michael Talbot

Source : John Michael Talbot (1991). “Blessings: Reflections on the Beatitudes”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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“Silence is a text easy to misread.”

Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism

“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”

“This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.”

“Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.”

“In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

“A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.”

“A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”