Jenneth Leed

“A civilization cannot be a civilization without the arts. A great civilization is an art form of the highest order.”
― Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

“Chad Walsh, a contemporary Christian poet, writes that the creative artist 'can honestly see himself as a kind of earthly assistant to God (so can the carpenter), carrying on the delegated work of creation, making the fullness of creation fuller.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“What unites all the books that make up the Scripture—what binds the Old and New Testaments together—is a singular, coherent story. It is the story of how a world of breathtaking beauty fell into ruin because of human selfishness. But God, because of his unshakable love, prepared the world for his arrival in disguise, the arrival of a Rescuer.
This is the secret the stranger on the road to Emmaus reveals to our two companions: the Rescuer has arrived. His name is Jesus of Nazareth, the same figure referred to in the Hebrew Bible as "the hope of all the ends of the earth." … As we shall see, the Christian story is indeed a conspiracy story—a divine conspiracy—and there is no one who is not implicated in its plot.”
― Joseph Loconte, The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt

“Works of art can simultaneously present ugliness (at the level of subject or content) and beauty (at the level of form). People who want things tidy and controlled will stumble at this paradox, but we will make far more sense of modern art if we are bold enough to accept the paradox.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts