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“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“We look to artists to feel for us, to suffer and rejoice, to describe the heights of their passionate response to life so that we can enjoy them from a safe distance. . . . We look to artists to stop time for us, to break the cycle of birth and death and temporarily put an end to life’s processes. It is too much of a whelm for any one person to face up to without going into sensory overload. Artists, on the other hand, court that intensity. We ask artists to fill our lives with a cavalcade of fresh sights and insights, the way life was for us when we were children and everything was new.39”
― The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts
― The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts
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