Doubtless the saints remain most tranquil in their images [icons]. But if we would picture to ourselves the soul of the saints, we should have to imagine a sort of great hurricane – yet a hurricane obedient to, and governed in its movement by, the wings of the eagle of the Spirit, a hurricane whirling upwards unceasingly to God. That is the only progress that can compensate for the trouble of living.
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973)