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Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They envisioned the blueprint finished down to the bathroom tile and announced, "Ah, this is perfect." The problem is that "teleos" suggests that perfection is something we can build or achieve. The Hebrews looked at the same blueprint more practically. They envisioned the process of building from hard hats to hammers, from scaffolding to skylights. "Ah," the Hebrews said. "This is perfect." The Hebrews and the early Christians understood perfection as a process, not a product. Our identity as Christians depends upon life lived in relationship with God, not upon the quality of our achievements. ↗

— Kenda Creasy Dean

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Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash ↗

— M.M. Kaye

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Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chivalry #conversations #stimulation #art

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere. ↗

— André Aciman

#monet #my-monet-moment #travel #art

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#perspective #pursuit #science #significance #trivia

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality ↗

— Jean Rousset

#creativity #reality #art

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#conventionality #taste #art

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#arts #arts-and-humanities #artsy #creative #creativity

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

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Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. ↗

— Freya Stark

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