Always Quote by Alain de Botton

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was…

— Nick Hornby

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

— Alain de Botton

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ...

— Jean Houston

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the…

— Eric Metaxas

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

— Francis Schaeffer

The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its…

— Marthe Bibesco

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious…

— Robert Shaw

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of…

— Hans Rookmaaker

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

— Mitch Horowitz