"A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith."

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Source : Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.23, Shaw Books

Leland Ryken

#Christian Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Issues Quotes

“The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.”
“For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.”
“That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?”
“I think my best memories are when I go home to California and I get play beach volleyball with my friends from home.”
“Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.”
“Live in your roots, not in your branches.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media
“There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.”
“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

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