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Book: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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  1. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.
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  2. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
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  3. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.
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  4. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. But a child rejoices in presents!
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    In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
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  6. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.
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  7. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.
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  8. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.
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  9. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which we can be given a new glimpse of the love of God.
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  10. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
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  11. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.
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  12. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.
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