Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

never had interviews with the gods or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

The most important thing of all is that God is talking to me.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

God speaks to us, through His Word by His Spirit.

I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.