You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood.… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).” — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.” — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world,… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
