Compassion

RIC_7778-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Unless compassion means the act of suffering with the other
in their otherness, it becomes meaningless.

Gregory Wolfe, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery

Religion and Art

RIC_3640-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Religion and art share the capacity to help us renew our awareness of the ultimate questions:

who we are , where we have come from, and where we are going.

Gregory Wolfe,

"Intruding Upon the Timeless,"

Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery

New Eyes

RCC_6074-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The purpose of art is not to strand us in an

     alternate world, but to return us to the

     realm of the ordinary, only with new eyes.

       Gregory Wolfe,

       "Transfiguration," Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on

       Art, Faith, and Mystery

Suffering Servants

RIC_4211-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Weathered rocks and weathered faces remind us that we

     should not move through time as conquerors, but as

     suffering servants.

       Gregory Wolfe, 

       "A Theology of Erosion," Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and

       Mystery

Rising

RIC_7860-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Whenever something is true, good, or beautiful

whether it be art, prayer, or thought, it rises.

And in rising, it converges with everything else

that is true, good, or beautiful.

Gregory Wolfe,

Convergences, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery