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"It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises."

"Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart."

"You must know your part in the body of Christ and play it."

"I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words."
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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."

"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."

"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."

"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."

"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."

"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."
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