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    Victor Hugo
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    Psalm 23:3, Isaiah 26:9, Hebrews 4:12, Psalm 42:1, 1 Peter 1:9, Matthew 16:26
    There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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    Tony Reinke
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    In the age of the spectacle, image is our identity, and our identity is unavoidably molded by our media.

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    Tony Reinke
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    The World watches the slandered church as something of a vain curiosity, but in reality, the church is a spectacle of her own—a large cast collectively playing the starring role as bride of in the hum...

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    Tony Reinke
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    Our culture is no longer banded together by shared beliefs; it’s drawn together by shared spectacles. Like Halloween costumes designed to match the most popular movies, we seek our self-identity insid...

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    Tony Reinke
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    Like a smartphone screen made blank by the rays of direct sunshine, one day we shall see Christ’s face. On that day, all the vain spectacles in this world of illusions and all the pixelated idols of o...

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    Tony Reinke
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    Satan blinds hearts by filling eyes with worthless things. His veil over human hearts today is a veil of pixels, and the chains of his spiritual bondage are tethered to the world’s theater.

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    David F. Wells
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    In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

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    Tony Reinke
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    In a world where sex, wealth, power, and beauty are the dominant idols, these idols will flood our dominant media.

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    Abraham Joshua Heschel
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    Leviticus 23:, Exodus 15:1-21, Nehemiah 8:9-12, Luke 15:22-24, John 2:1-11, Psalm 100:1-2
    People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To b...

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    Tony Reinke
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    Two theaters compete for our gaze: the theater of sin on earth and the theater of glory where Christ is.

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    John Calvin
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    The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approac...

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    Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro
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    Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the wor...

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    Vance Havner
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    Today, much of the church has gone in for theatrics, running a showboat instead of a lifeboat; staging a performance instead of living an experience; having a “form of godliness without the power ther...

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    Marilynne Robinson
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    Wherever you turn your eyes, the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    A fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the worl...

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    Tony Reinke
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    TV is imago populi—all of society’s trendy appetites incarnated into visible form and broadcasted.

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    John Ruskin
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    The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who...

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    Yogi Berra
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    You can observe a lot by watchin’.

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    John Lubbock
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    How little we see! What we do see depends mainly on what we look for.

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    Marguerite Duras
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    The art of seeing has to be learned.

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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    Ephesians 2:8, Isaiah 61:3, Psalm 95:6, Revelation 4:11, Mark 6:51-52, Psalm 19:1, Genesis 1:31
    A moment of grace lies in all beauty: it shows itself to me far beyond what I have a right to expect, which is why we feel astonishment and adoration.

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    John Calvin
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    [Every human being is] “formed to be a spectator of the created world and given eyes that he might be led to its author . . . first [to] cast our eyes upon the very beautiful fabric of the world in wh...

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    A. J. Swoboda
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    We’re tourist Christians. We remain as long as we’re entertained.

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    William James
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    My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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    Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

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    Candice Bergen
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    Psalm 90:17, 1 Peter 3:3-4, James 1:10-11, Ecclesiastes 3:11, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Isaiah 40:7-8, 1 Samuel 16:7
    Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

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    Karl Marx
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    All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice ... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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    William Shakespeare
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    Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

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    Victor Hugo
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    "Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and i...
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