When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.