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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 October 1876)
... 1 Drop me a
line as soon as you can.
A week from last Sunday, I made a long trip to London, and
there I heard about a kind of job which perhaps might do for me
sometime. In seaport towns like Liverpool and Hull, certain
preachers are often in need of... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 October 1876)
... passed like
little black figures.
When I was standing in the pulpit, I felt like somebody who,
emerging from a dark cave underground, comes back to the
friendly daylight. It is a delightful thought that in the
future wherever I go, I shall preach the Gospel;... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7 March 1877)
... of good courage,
fear not.”
Oh might I be shown the way to devote my life more
completely to the service of God and the Gospel. I keep praying
for it and I think I shall be heard, I say it in all humility.
Humanly speaking, one would say it cannot... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Uncle Cor
(8 March 1877)
... until twelve or one o'clock
at night.
I like being in Holland
again, although the work across the
Channel, notwithstanding all the trouble and profound
disappointment, was dear to me. It is still - because of the
disappointment and relative failure... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 March 1877)
... am to have them, they fill me with hope.
Writing to you about
my plans helps me to clarify and settle
my thoughts. To begin with, I think of the text, “It is
my portion to keep Thy word.” I have such a craving to
make the treasures of the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 April 1877)
... be safer than taking it with me abroad.
It seems to me a new proof and a hint - I have already
observed more of them lately - that everything will be all
right with me, that I shall succeed in the thing I so earnestly
desire. Something of the old faith grows... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 May 1877)
... wish I were far away from
everything!
And yet I go on, but prudently and hoping to have strength
to resist those things, so that I shall know what to answer to
those reproaches that threaten me, and believing that
notwithstanding everything that seems... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 May 1877)
... like our father, I will
thank God.
I have strong hopes of
success: once somebody who was more advanced in life than I and who was no stranger to Jerusalem -
meaning he had sought after it and found it - said to me,
“I believe you are a Christian.”... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(15 July 1877)
... -
Bookseller's Row, for instance.
May it be given to me in time to preach as well as many I
have heard in the past and hear now. I am trying my utmost to
prepare myself for it. I am very busy making a summary of the
Reformation; the history of... |
