Quote of the Week

"So we also, holding Art in our hands, confidently deem ourselves its masters; we boldly give it direction, bring it up to date, reform it, proclaim it, sell it for money, use it to please the powerful, divert it for amusement... or else adapt it... toward transient political or limited social needs.  But art remains undefiled by our endeavourss and the stamp of its origin remains unaffected: each time and in every usage it bestows upon us a portion of its mysterious inner light." -- Aleksandr Solzhenisten in Robert K. Johnston, Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Grand Rapidss, Mi.: Baker, 2000) p. 90.