“I know several young composers who are atheists. I have read their scores, and I assure you, that they are doomed to speedy oblivion, because they are utterly lacking in inspiration. Their works are purely cerebral. 1.-3. The great Nazarene knew that law also, and He proclaimed it in John 15:4, ‘The branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine.’ 4. 11. 18.-21. No atheist has ever been or ever will be a great composer. 1.-3. Jesus answers that question unequivocally in Matthew 7, 13: ‘Wide is the gate and broad the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat.’ 1.-3. As I conceive it, theology is man-made, 1.-3. while religion is God-made.” 5. 7, 8, 9, 6. 10, 11, 7. 12, 8. 13, 9. 14, 15, 10. 16, 17, 18, 15. 25, 16. 26, 27, 17. 28, 29, 30 1.-3. 2, 3, 11. 21, 12.-14. 22, 23, 18. 33, 19.-21. 34, 35 7. 8. 15. 6. 9. 16. Brahms 6.-9. 11. 15.-21. in a conversation with the famous violinist and friend Joseph Joachim

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