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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all it...more

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

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And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civi...more

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Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he ...more

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Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living ...more

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out tho...more

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I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do peop...more

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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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Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

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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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As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living ...more

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As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through ...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

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But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

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To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives ...more