“Art is the passion born from a souls divine connection to God”

“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!”

“Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.”

“Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condition that a belief in God will mean no more than belief in anything else. They will allow God, provided that God does not matter. But taking God seriously is precisely what makes the saint. As St. Teresa put it, “What is not God to me is nothing.” This passion is called snobbish, intolerant, stupid, and unwarranted intrusion; yet those who resent it deeply wish in their own hearts that they had the saint’s inner peace and happiness.”