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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contra...more

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We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

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Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we l...more

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Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more t...more

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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

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In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things ...more

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George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God s...more

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It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that su...more

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We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we kn...more