The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
Peter KreeftTag: art philosophy christianity god sun jesus spirituality theology catholicism jesus-christ christ sunlight son-of-god jesus-shock sonlight
Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.
Peter KreeftWe all, like Frodo, carry a Quest, a Task: our daily duties. They come to us, not from us. We are free only to accept or refuse our task- and, implicitly, our Taskmaster. None of us is a free creator or designer of his own life. "None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself" (Rom 14:7). Either God, or fate, or meaningless chance has laid upon each of us a Task, a Quest, which we would not have chosen for ourselves. We are all Hobbits who love our Shire, or security, our creature comforts, whether these are pipeweed, mushrooms, five meals a day, and local gossip, or Starbucks coffees, recreational sex, and politics. But something, some authority not named in The Lord of the Rings (but named in the Silmarillion), has decreed that a Quest should interrupt this delightful Epicurean garden and send us on an odyssey. We are plucked out of our Hobbit holes and plunked down onto a Road.
Peter KreeftMan's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. Of course, the latter two are not infallible.
Peter KreeftIt is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
Peter KreeftThe eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.
Peter KreeftFrom the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like The Lord of the Rings is a gift of divine grace, an opening of the curtain that veils Heaven to earthly eyes, a tiny telepathic contact with the Mind of God.
Peter KreeftOnly God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational truth love beauty philosophy christianity god goodness spirituality theology catholicism adore jesus-shock unlimited-beauty unlimited-goodness unlimited-love unlimited-truth
Love gives you eyes.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational love philosophy christianity spirituality theology eyes catholicism jesus-shock
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational philosophy christianity god heaven spirituality theology boredom catholicism hearts jesus-shock
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