“Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.”

“It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.”

“Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)”

“Image is everything, self image that is.”

“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”

“By associating votive offerings with sacred images, the Catholic Church, it its wisdom, had left its formerly pagan flock a legitimate outlet for the inveterate impulse to associate oneself, or one's own effigy, with the Divine as expressed in the palpable form of the human image.”