Ian Cron Quotes

#1. There is a big difference in life between a jump and a fall. A jump is about courage and faith, something the world is in short supply of these days. A fall is, well, a fall.

Ian Morgan Cron

#2. the object of all great art is beauty, and it makes us nostalgic for God. Whether we consider ourselves people of faith or not, art arouses in us what the pope calls a 'universal desire for redemption.

Ian Morgan Cron

#3. Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

Terry Teachout

#4. Father Alexander Schmemann is an Orthodox scholar who wrote a book called For the Life of the World. He says the liturgy is a journey that proceeds from the kingdom of this world into a brief encounter with the kingdom of God, and then back out again to bear witness to it.

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#5. Life always comes down to who's driving

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#6. First, if Francis were around today, he'd say our church community relies too much on words to tell others about our faith. For Francis, the gathered community was as potent a form of witness as words. He was convinced that how we live together is what attracts people to faith.

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#7. It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Ray Lamontagne

#8. To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, only more Catholic.

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#9. The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#10. It's like what Gandhi said: The world is so hungry for God that God could only come as a piece of bread. We so long for joy that God even risked coming into the world in the form of intoxication, that risky thing called wine.

Ian Morgan Cron

#11. I was drunk with belonging.

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#12. Here lies Mago the boxer, of whom it may honestly be said that he never harmed anybody.

K.J. Parker

#13. More often than not, Jesus comes to us incognito.

Ian Morgan Cron

#14. As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

Charles De Lint

#15. The best way to get a new or better job is simply to commit to being the best at the one you have now.

Andre Marron

#16. His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.

Ian Morgan Cron

#17. Francis taught me that if we spent less time worrying about how to share our faith with someone on an airplane and more time thinking about how to live radically generous lives, more people would start taking our message seriously.

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#18. She taught me how to ride the Dragon Coaster and what to do when you're flung into the mouth of whatever it is you think will kill you. Throw up your arms and laugh until you come out the other side.

Ian Morgan Cron

#19. ..."love always stoops.

Ian Morgan Cron