Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

I don’t think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.’‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.