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In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted b...more

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation th...more

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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

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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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Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all...more

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The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so ...more

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Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christian...more

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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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What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

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When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where...more