The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.
The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
The Bible never belittles human disappointment. . . but it does add one key word: temporary.
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings. . . I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition. . . I do not believe. . . that this belittles my own personality.
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
