Langdon Brown Gilkey Inspirational Quotes (5)

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.