Faith and Culture

“[C]ulture is the faith made visible, and being visible is the heart of the faith in the God who made himself visible in Christ.”

“This deep aspiration of the human spirit for God and the meaning of existence, as well as the expression of this quest in various ways, is the heart of culture.”

“The idea of jettisoning ‘the speech of Christian centuries’ and ‘the language of the angels’ for a language ‘as contemporary as the Beatles’ affects all dimensions of culture.”

“As the father guides the son deeper into virtue through the son’s obedience, through his good inclinations, his particular instantiation of the virtues, so the prince serves as a father to the city itself.”

“In some sense, the musician performs a priestly function in mediating between our mundane existence and our transcendent yearnings.”

“[E]very Christian art . . . will be animated by the life of Christianity such that it will be impossible to say where the sheerly artistic means of working end and the Christian inspiration begins.”

“It is because we are embodied spirits that we truly and completely come to know something only when our feet and hands know what to do and are able to do it.”

“The freedom of the bound order is greater than the freedom of the lone voice.”

“The significance of our deeds flows from silence and contemplation.”