Quotes

{Some say Van Gogh strayed from the faith, and some say he did then turned back. Personally I do not know, there are also some quotes of his that are contrary to the faith. Yet I still am not sure if they are his, they could have been altered. Either way here are some of the good ones.}

 

"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”

 

“Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be.

"If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one's love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger.”

 

“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

 

“What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?”

 

“The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.”

 

“At present this horror of life is already less pronounced, and the melancholy less acute. But I still have no will, and hardly any desires, or none at all that are to do with ordinary life.”

 

“Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.”

 

“Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity.”

 

“But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.”