Henri Quotes
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.
One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."
