Calvin Seerveld Quotes

#1. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. One day you'll wake up and find that the pain's still there but it doesn't hurt quite so much.

Sarra Manning

#3. Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

Calvin Seerveld

#4. I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

Calvin Seerveld

#5. it's no mystery that all cells here on earth should be chemiosmotic. I would expect that cells across the universe will be chemiosmotic too.

Nick Lane

#6. I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

Kathy Mattea

#7. Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#8. Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

Calvin Seerveld

#9. Javi is the poison I drink so willingly because nothing else has ever tasted so sweet. He is everything. The light and the dark. The solace and the pain. The torment and the peace. And I can't imagine not having him here with me. I can't even consider it.

A. Zavarelli

#10. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

John Selden

#11. Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that's how nostalgia works, right? We only remember the best of the available memories.

Jarod Kintz

#12. The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

Calvin Seerveld