Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John RuskinWhat is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
John RuskinAt every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
John RuskinThe root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
John Ruskin