Stevie Kinzer’s Reviews > Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive > Status Update

“If the Lord, in his kindness, gives us the blessing of friendship, He is most certainly calling us to the holy work burden bearing. Stick around long enough in any relationship and you will come to see more than the initial portraits offered. To truly love someone is to move beyond first impressions into the heart of things; it is to take on the sacred work of stewarding another’s joy and sorrow…”

“To suffer well is not to have our faith shattered but rather to have it strengthened because, through it, the object of our confidence becomes clearer and more focused. The blessing of suffering is that it strips away any pretense of not needing God or others. It frees us of this exhausting comedy of having to pretend that we’re fine on our own.”

“Beauty pulls us upward… what does it pull us toward? The truth that we were made to exist in the presence of glory.”