"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

God, Dance, Dancing, Living

52

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

Exlpore more God quotes

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

God, Tomorrow

"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

God, Civilization

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

God, Sky, Space, Stars

"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

William James, American Philosopher

God, Grace

"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

God,

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

God, Mythology

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

God, Man, Trouble

"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

God, Men, Nurses

"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."

Roger Williams, English Theologian

God, Inspiration, Man, Nations

Explore more quotes by Martha Graham

"Learn by practice."

Practice

"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."

Art

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."

Time

"To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that."

Love

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."

Nature

"The only sin is mediocrity."

Mediocrity

"The body is a sacred garment."

Body

52

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more God quotes

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."

Explore more quotes by Martha Graham

"Learn by practice."

"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."

"Nothing is more revealing than movement."

"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."

"Censorship is the height of vanity."

"To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that."

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."

"The only sin is mediocrity."

"The body is a sacred garment."