"Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
Plato
"Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves."
John Calvin, Institutio Christianae Religionis
"What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some self-conscious evangelism… Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination… The Christian is the really free man - he is free to have imagination. This is our heritage. The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars."
Francis Shaeffer
"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
