36 Quotes by Ian Morgan Cron

I’m beginning to see that there’s a difference between art that trusts beauty’s simple power to point people to God and Christian art that’s consciously propagandistic. My Uncle Kenny, with whom I spent most of my time in Italy, said something profound – that you can make art about the Light, or you can make art that shows what the Light reveals about the world.

The good news is we have a God who would know our scrawny butt anywhere. He remembers who we are, the person he knit together in our mother’s womb, and he wants to help restore us to our authentic selves.

Beauty can break a heart and make it think about something more spiritual than the mindless routine we go through day after day to get by.

Neuroscientists have determined the brain’s dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is associated with decision making and cost-benefit assessments. If MRI brain scans had been performed on my friends and me one summer’s night when we were fifteen, they would have revealed a dark spot indicating a complete absence of activity in this region of our brains.

It’s like what Gandhi said: “The world is so hungry for God that God could only come as a piece of bread. We so long for joy that God even risked coming into the world in the form of intoxication, that risky thing called wine.

Sadly, the unlived lives of parents sometimes push their children toward destinies not of their own choosing.

Risking vulnerability and love is what takes courage.

Whenever possible, perform acts of anonymous service.

But there is an old Rwandan proverb: ‘He who seeks vengeance is like a man who drinks poison, hoping that it will kill his enemy,’ ” Emmanuel said, a fleeting smile appearing.