Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.
To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
She talks about being a Christian as if it’s a gym membership you can sign up for.
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.
I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow - but seriously, I actually remember coming to the Lord then and starting my long walk with Him.
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their fr...
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.
It is true that we need to make a onetime decision to follow Jesus. But a true onetime decision is followed by the everyday decision to Jesus.
The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and .
His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
