Stuart

“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

“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

“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