Writing

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me.”

C.S. Lewis, Til We Have Faces 

“In art, we do not 'obliterate the darkness'; art is an attempt to define the boundaries of the darkness…God’s Word is the Light; Jesus told us that he is the Light. If light places boundaries over the darkness, then our art needs to do the same.” 

Makoto Fujimura, Art & Faith: A Theology of Making

“The eucatastrophic tale is the true form of fairy-tale, and its highest function…In its fairy-tale setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace; never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies universal, final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”  
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