James Rostad

“Liturgy is never a silver bullet for sinfulness.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“The internet and smartphones are fantastic for connections, communication, and knowledge. But connections are not friends, communication is not intimacy, and knowledge is not wisdom.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

“We are spiritual not because we practice the disciplines or use pious words but because we are united to Jesus who has restored our union with God.”
― Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace (Ancient-Future): Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life

“In participation we first reach out and take the whole world into our hands. We lift the Alpha and Omega to our mouth. We take God’s whole story into our stomach, let it run through our bloodstream, let it then energize our entire living—our relationships, our work, our pleasure—all of life is to be lived now as Jesus lived his life for us, and for our sake, dying for us, rising for us, showing us how to live in the pattern of his dying and rising. As he took into himself the suffering of all humanity, so we are to take into ourselves the suffering of the world and do something about it. As he rose above all that is evil in the world through his resurrection, so we, too, are to rise to the new life by the Spirit of God. All our death to sin and rising to life finds its true and ultimate meaning in him who lives in us, living in our sufferings, living in our struggles with evil, living in our resurrections to new life.”
― Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace (Ancient-Future): Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life