Tag: Scripture

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life…

ART APPRECIATION Garden Under Snow (1879) by Paul Gauguin Garden Under Snow was one of Gauguin’s earliest works. It was completed before he traveled to Tahiti where his style changed…

“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If…

“He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience canceled their disobedience. On the other hand, he bound…

“If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life, then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as…

Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right…

“The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have…

ART APPRECIATION Saying Grace  (1951) by Norman Rockwell Saying Grace was a painting inspired by a letter Rockwell received from a lady who had encountered a similar scene in an…

ART APPRECIATION The Flight into Egypt  (c. 1604) by Anibale Carracci The Flight into Egypt was unique because the landscape was more important than the figures. Notice the tiny size…

“The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things…