The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

10 Quotes on art by well known artists


1. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery
Francis Bacon
2. A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art
Paul Cezanne
3. Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
4. Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
5. Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it./ Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
6. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
7. The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
8. If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
9. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
10. Painting is the most beautiful of lies
Kees van Dongen

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