Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn--though the illusion of the latter appeals to us by its lower risk.  It is easier to learn a part than create a work of art.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 50

The cast is so soft and slow that it can be followed like an ash settling from a fireplace chimney.  One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, pg. 43

Faith is adventurous and creative.  It not only is the sphere of the possible, but is also the power which often makes the possible come into being.  Faith is that remarkable quality of the human spirit which first envisages the possibilities of life, then lives as though these possibilities were realities, and by this action often makes them real.

Lowell Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth pg. 126

The artist experiences and interprets reality largely through the medium of feeling.  This explains why there is so much individuality in art and so little unanimity in contrast with science, which is based more on thought.  The sensitive, imaginative, creative insight of the artist, while related to thought and based on experience, seems to transcend them both in its apprehension and representation of reality.  Great artists have learned to express feeling and to trust it as a meaningful approach to truth.

-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 35)

The search for knowledge is a great adventure consistent with man's need as a child of the great Creator to be creative.  The quest for knowledge, the activity of learning, is as satisfying to the mind as is the final discovery.

-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 21)