1. In the Reformation, as in the tabernacle, God gave skill, artistry, and craftsmanship to put his Word in images so that through art, his Word would be revealed.
  2. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  3. The best synonym I can think of for Biblical meditation is "wonder." To meditate upon God's word is to wonder, as a child wonders at the stars.
  4. Dürer's first significant work to be published was a woodcut which served as the title page for a volume of St. Jerome’s Letters in August of 1492.
  5. “Rembrandt goes so deep into the mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.”
  6. It’s no wonder we’re so attached to images; we are one. We are human hyphens between the celestial and the terrestrial.
  7. The concept of Theology as science is foreign to our ‘enlightened’ century where the subject has been removed to the Liberal Arts category.