More Quotes on Creativity

Here’s some more wisdom from some old guys who loved Jesus. From Ben

John Calvin: “The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.”

H. R. Rookmaaker: “We must realize that we Christians are responsible… To look at modern art is to look at the fruit of the spirit of the avant-garde: it is they who are ahead in building a view of the world with no God, no norms. Yet is this so because Christians long since left the field to the world, and, in a kind of mystical retreat from the world, condemned the arts as worldly, almost sinful? Indeed, nowhere is culture more ‘unsalted’ than precisely in the field of arts - and that in a time when the arts (in the widest sense) are gaining a stronger influence than ever through the mass communications.”

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