Affliction Quote by J. I. Packer

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

— J. I. Packer

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man…

— Alexander Smith

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may…

— Robert Breault

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he…

— William Butler Yeats

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is…

— Herbert Read

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If…

— Robert Breault

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a…

— Diane Glancy

“our fates are cut by chisels we hold in our own hands, that circumstances do not limit, that time and culture do not dictate.…

— BK Loren

“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.”

— Edward Luce

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan