“The great artists keep us from frozenness, from smugness, from thinking that the truth is in us rather than in God, in Christ our Lord. They help us to know that we are often closer to God in our doubts than in our certainties, that it is alright to be like the small child who constantly asks: Why? Why? Why?
Caiaphas asked no whys. He was frozen into the rigidity of the religious establishment of Jesus’ day, and because of this frozenness, he feared Jesus was a blasphemer. Throughout the ages, our religious establishments have on occasion followed Caiaphas rather than Jesus, and this is something we must be on the alert for, all of the time.”
~ Madeleine L’Engle, Walking in Water, pg. 155-56
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