Crystal Scurr > Crystal's Quotes

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

“Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar” (Psalm 118:27). You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents—burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose—the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means “I must have it at once.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“This book, a primer on biblical creativity, sought to drum into us the idea that we create out of a worldview and that it is our responsibility to align that point of view with Scripture before we continue on.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

“The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“If our devotion is to the cause of humanity, we will be quickly defeated and brokenhearted, since we will often be confronted with a great deal of ingratitude from other people. But if we are motivated by our love for God, no amount of ingratitude will be able to hinder us from serving one another.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“be. Paul said this is the reason that “in all these things we are more than conquerors.” We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to “set your words on fire” for His glory.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin; that is, against any claim I have to my right to myself. Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“The greatest characteristic of a saint is humility, as evidenced by being able to say honestly and humbly, “Yes, all those, as well as other evils, would have been exhibited in me if it were not for the grace of God. Therefore, I have no right to judge.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Receiving Yourself in
the Fires of Sorrow”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are—you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don’t use your restrictions to criticize someone else.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Resting in the Lord is not dependent on your external circumstances at all, but on your relationship with God Himself.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Worrying always results in sin.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. —2 TIMOTHY 1:7 NKJV”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“In painting, as in life, though there are problems to be solved there’s also the ineffable, the mystery to be experienced.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity

“since Apollo was Apollo, and the muses muses, and poets poets, no book as amusing or nonsensical has ever been written, and since, in its way, it is the best and most unusual book of its kind that has seen the light of day, anyone who has not read it can assume that he has never read anything entertaining.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. 2This is how you must think of yourself in your heart,51 because this is what you are.52”
― Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition

“the elemental qualities of the creative process are the same as healing.”
― Shaun McNiff, Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

“Experienced creators know they are channels for a force moving through them, prone to acting on its own time and not theirs. It is not something they possess or switch on and off. Creating is a dance with what we can and cannot control and the challenge is to be receptive, ready, and capable of engagement.”
― Shaun McNiff, Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

“Mindfulness practice teaches us that we can evoke the observer, the part of ourself that can step back and see a situation with conscious awareness rather than being locked into harsh negativity and self-doubt.”
― Nancy Hillis, The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity