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“Rembrandt didn’t idealize his subjects. He painted what he saw, which was a mixture of glory and fallenness. He was criticized by his contemporaries for using washerwomen as his models rather than women who looked like Greek goddesses.”
― Steve Turner, 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?”
― Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

“It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already in agreement than it does to convert opponents.”
― Steve Turner, Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

“but we dare never count on legislation or political parties to accomplish what only God's people functioning as the church can do. We must seek a completely pro-life agenda, trying to prevent abortion and to avoid endorsing sexual sin or glamorizing dysfunctional family life, but at the same time we must work for the best quality of life for those already born, including adequate health care for the poor, housing for the homeless, jobs for the unemployed, fair treatment for immigrants, and positive alternatives for those lured by a life of crime.”
― Craig L. Blomberg, Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey

“love God and do as you please.”
― Craig L. Blomberg, Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey

“As Chesterton points out somewhere, sexual license is the first and most obvious bribe to be offered to a slave. For many in our era, that was the bribe that ushered them into their bondage to the state.”
― Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

“And then on top of all of that, we are also entrusted with making new people, more immortals. We are bringing them into existence through biological conception, but the project hardly ends there. All day long, we are in varying degrees helping to form the kind of person who is aiming for everlasting glory or everlasting disgust.”
― Toby J. Sumpter, No Mere Mortals: Marriage for People Who Will Live Forever

“When the great Scottish Reformer John Knox prayed, he did not ask for enough Scots to enable him to get together a Bible study. He prayed for Scotland—and the Lord granted his request. Jesus said we were to disciple the nations, teaching them . . . (Matthew 28:16-20).”
― Douglas Wilson, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education

“The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.”
― N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“To get my hands up. To grope for the pillars. To saddle up the mustang and hang on tight. To live for this woman who is giving her life for me, for these little humans who are our love made flesh. Ride the roaring wave of providence with eager expectation. To search for the stories all around me. To see Christ in every pair of eyes. To write a past I won’t regret. To reach the dregs of the life I’ve been given and then to lick the bottom of my mug. To live hard and die grateful. And to enjoy it.”
― N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“Chesterton’s witty observation usually holds: “As is common in most modern discussions the unmentionable thing is the pivot of the whole discussion.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship

“two types of education. The one begins with hard, dry things like grammar, and dates, and prosody; and it has at least the chance of ending in a real appreciation which is equally hard and firm though not equally dry. The other begins in ‘Appreciation’ and ends in gush. When the first fails it has, at the very least, taught the boy what knowledge is like. He may decide that he doesn’t care for knowledge; but he knows he doesn’t care for it, and he knows he hasn’t got it. But the other kind fails most disastrously when it most succeeds. It teaches a man to feel vaguely cultured while he remains in fact a dunce. It makes him think he is enjoying poems he can’t construe. It qualifies him to review books he does not understand, and to be intellectual without intellect. It plays havoc with the very distinction between truth and error.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature