Tyler Blanski > Quotes

“Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.”
― Tyler Blanski, Mud & Poetry: Love, Sex, and the Sacred

“Men don’t cover their heads during Mass, because they are a liturgical reminder of the One to whom all of us—men and women together—are united by Baptism: Christ the Bridegroom. Women cover their heads as a liturgical reminder of who all of us—men and women together—are by Baptism: Mother Church, the Bride of the Lamb. Together in the Mass, we tell the story of the wedding of heaven and earth, Christ and his Bride, the first thing.”
― Tyler Blanski, An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance

“As John Henry Cardinal Newman says: “Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and pride of man.”10 The idea of giving God everything sounded good in principle; living it was another matter. I did not know if I could give him that. But I sensed that if I didn’t, if I did not say Yes, step by step, I would follow the path of the fallen angels who said, “I will not serve.”
― Tyler Blanski, An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance

“Is it safe?” someone said. “Safe?” I said. “Of course it isn’t safe. But it’s good.”
― Tyler Blanski, An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance

“The old forest of Christendom is an invitation to worship — more specifically, to participate in the Eucharist, to affirm yet again that the Man who was born in Bethlehem really was of one substance with the Father, that all things were made by him, and that the mystery of the Word made flesh is made available to us at the Lord’s Supper.”
― Tyler Blanski, When Donkeys Talk: A Quest to Rediscover the Mystery and Wonder of Christianity

“By saying that we were “first Christians, then Anglicans”, my priest seemed to be saying, in so many words, that Anglicanism was just one of the many optional paths up the mountain we call Christianity. Beneath all the talk of liturgy and sacraments and tradition, beneath the bishops and the altars and the stoles, there seemed to be a fundamental conviction that none of it was actually necessary.”
― Tyler Blanski, An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance