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“A Christian’s purpose in life is to be redemptive in the world. Someone who takes the example of Christ’s life as a guide can tolerate neither a refusal to become immersed in the flow of actual human life in this world nor a willingess to leave fallen human life where it is. The Christian artist’s mission is to add to the beauty, truth, and joy of the world, not its hopelessness.”

– Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination