17 Top christianity books like Art Needs No Justification by Hans R. Rookmaaker

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Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention."

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"People "at the top" are eager to attribute their position to their own intellect, savvy, and hard work. The reality is much more complicated. Personal connections, family environment, and what appear…"

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is …"

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• christian
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• theology

"It (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Similar categories in Arthur W. Pink's The Attributes of God book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• christian
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• theology

"Grace is that in God which brings into favor one justly in disfavor."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends "

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

"We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy."

-Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

Similar categories in Erasmus's Praise of Folly book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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Similar categories in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• christian
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"...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and g…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

"Up until the 20th century, traditional cultures (and this is still true of most cultures in the world) always believed that too high a view of yourself was the root cause of all the evil in the world…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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Similar categories in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Similar categories in T. Harv Eker's Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"this is a book about something"

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"The help will come,"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"I don't want to hold you hand!"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"Things never happen the same way twice."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"And the feasts on the poop and the musicians."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Weight of Glory book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• theology
• christianity
• philosophy
• nonfiction

"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Similar categories in Philip Graham Ryken's Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

• cultural
• art
• christian
• theology
• christianity
• nonfiction

Similar categories in None's SIMPLESMENTE CRENTE: por uma vida cristã comum book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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Similar categories in Francis A. Schaeffer's Art & the Bible book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• christian
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• theology

"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Similar categories in John Owen's The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks) book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts."

-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)

"a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification"

-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)

"Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good provi…"

-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)

"A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength and vigour, the beating down of the present fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth mo…"

-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)

Similar categories in Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Similar categories in Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is Untrue book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Miracles book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• theology
• christianity
• philosophy
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"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

"Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

"In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

"Death is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Similar categories in Elisabeth Elliot's Suffering is Never for Nothing book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

Similar categories in Russ Ramsey's Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

• art
• christian
• theology
• christianity
• nonfiction

"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

Similar categories in Makoto Fujimura's Art and Faith: A Theology of Making book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

• art
• christian
• theology
• christianity
• philosophy
• nonfiction

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Cristianismo Puro e Simples book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

• christianity
• philosophy
• christian

"Estritamente falando, não existe essa coisa de impulsos bons e maus."

-C.S. Lewis, Cristianismo Puro e Simples

"Apenas aqueles que buscam resistir à tentação sabem o quanto ela é forte."

-C.S. Lewis, Cristianismo Puro e Simples

"O Orgulho não tem prazer em ter algo, mas apenas em ter mais do que o próximo."

-C.S. Lewis, Cristianismo Puro e Simples

"Ninguém sabe o quanto é mau enquanto não tiver se esforçado muito para ser bom."

-C.S. Lewis, Cristianismo Puro e Simples

Similar categories in Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

• cultural
• art
• christian
• theology
• christianity
• philosophy
• nonfiction

"Deus é bom em salvar almas, mas o temos mantido fora de nossas grandes decisões sobre educação, ciência, política, etc. (p. 32)"

-Hans R. Rookmaaker, Art Needs No Justification

"But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning …"

-Hans R. Rookmaaker, Art Needs No Justification

"All too often people say to artists, 'To be an artist is fine if your art can be used for evangelism.' And art has often become a tool for evangelism. But let's be precise. As such there is nothing a…"

-Hans R. Rookmaaker, Art Needs No Justification

Similar categories in Kathleen B. Nielson's Women and God: Hard Questions, Beautiful Truth book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

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• theology

Similar categories in Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt's Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art book and Hans R. Rookmaaker's Art Needs No Justification

• art
• christian
• nonfiction
• theology