Both love and great art show us our world with a clarity which startles us because we are not used to looking at the real world at all. Stanley Hauerwas, “The Significance of Vision: Toward an Aesthetic Ethic”
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Learning How to See
Posted in Art, Love on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Williams on “God Is Love”
Posted in Church/Theology, God, Love on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God. Charles Williams
“It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another…”
Posted in Love on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over over any soul be loved, even [...]
Wright on Love, Art, and Justice
Posted in Art, Love on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Art is love creating the new world and Justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one. N.T. Wright
“To love at all is to be vulnerable…”
Posted in Love on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; [...]
