rembrandt van rijn, the storm on the sea of galilee


Q. What is your only comfort in life
and in death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong
- body and soul in life and in death -
to my faithful savior Jesus Christ.

-Heidelberg Catechism




Despite all my rage I am
still just a rat in a cage.

-Smashing Pumpkins




Winning isn't everything, 
but wanting to win is.

-Vince Lombardi 



Success has ruined
many a man.

-Ben Franklin




This is an ordinary sample of my father's
handwriting on a recycled envelope..  My
mother's penmanship was also quite
beautiful and legible as was probably 90%
of their generation's.  What has happened?




There are no hard times
for good ideas.

-Gordon Selfridge



m. c. escher


At moments of great enthusiasm it seems
to me that no one in the world has ever made
something this beautiful and important.

-M. C. Escher




By your words you will be
justified, and by your words
you will be condemned.

-Matthew 12:37




Rigid, the skeleton of
habit alone upholds the human frame.

-Virginia Woolf



If I'm free it's because
I'm always running.

-Jimi Hendrix



Any fool can make a rule.

-Henry David Thoreau




October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

-Nova Blair



Be not afraid of solitude.

-Werner Herzog






A light heart lives
long.

-William Shakespeare



Not to us, O Lord,
not to us, but to your
name give glory.

-Psalm 115:1



Facts are stupid things.

-Ronald Reagan




But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.

-C. S. Lewis



Every mile is two in winter.

-George Herbert



paul cezanne

The silence of the place was like
a sleep, so full of rest it seemed.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



The heart of the giver makes
the gift dear and precious.

-Martin Luther



There are strings in the
human heart that had
better not be vibrated.

-Charles Dickens



The secret of the Lord is
with those who fear Him.

-Psalm 25:14



Expenditure rises
to meet income.

-C. Northcote Parkinson



Some people can stay longer in an
hour than others can in a week.

-William Howells



A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

-Chinese proverb



m. c. escher

When dealing with the insane, the

best method is to pretend to be sane.
 -Hermann Hesse



I may be totally wrong but i'm a dancing fool.

-Frank Zappa



It's okay not to be okay -
but it's not okay to stay there.

-Matt Chandler






The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

-William Gurnall



Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-Gertrude Stein



edgar degas


Painting is easy when you don't
know how, but very difficult
when you do.

-Edgar Degas