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We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation th...more

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The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, wheth...more

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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

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Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

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I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self ...more

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Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all...more

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The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so ...more

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Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

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What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

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When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where...more

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The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the ch...more