The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood.… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).” — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the world brings suffering, and since God refuses to use His almighty power and treat us as foolish children, He aligns Himself with us, goes into Auschwitz with us, is devastated by 9/11 with us, and draws… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.” — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world,… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
