What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.
Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom.
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