I am going to be doing a succession of posts entitled "Quote of the day." They may show up every day or every few days. While I would like to say that I am a connoisseur of quotes, it is more like I am a collector of them. That is to say, I have more than enough to post every day for the next year or two, but I won't tax your patience quite to that extent. When they are short I may do more than one. Think on them, enjoy them, and please, feel free to comment on them.
"The artistic capacity to envision, and in vision to transfigure this world or some hypothetical counterpart, evidently responds uniquely to an abiding human need. That is the need to discover, imagine, and come to grips with a world that can be thought and felt to matter, both in its goodness and beauty and in its evil and horror....Precisely because we are embodied, thinking, passionate beings who want meaning and meaningfulness, truth and emotional satisfaction, we cannot be engaged wholly except through forms that imaginatively encompass and orient us within something like a world: something, moreover, as purposeful in its apparent purposelessness as we hope and trust life itself can be." - From Religious Aesthetics, A Theological Study of Making and Meaning
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