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“What if we committed to speaking fresh creativity and vision into culture rather than denouncing and boycotting other cultural products?”
― Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

“If we care to know how deep the suffering of Christ goes—and how vast and even violent is the restoration process through Christ’s suffering—then we had better start with knowing the dark, cruel reality of the fallen world. If we care to embrace hope despite what encompasses us, the impossibility of life and the inevitability of death, then we must embrace a vision that will endure beyond our failures. We should not journey toward a world in which”solutions” to the “problems” are sought, but a world that acknowledges the possibility of the existence of grace beyond even the greatest of traumas, the Ground-Zero realities of our lives.”
― Makoto Fujimura, Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner