“Why do you speak to the people in such plain language?” Jesus replied, “I speak this way because facts are just so engaging and move the heart far more than any story ever could. Besides they are more memorable and have the added benefit
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“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting – in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked.”
― Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
― Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
“How much of life is Christ to be Lord over? Is he only interested in that part of life we think of as religious or spiritual? Or is he interested in every facet of our lives—body, soul, mind and spirit?”
― Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
― Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
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