Mickelle

“Christian carefulness does not come out of a place of timidity or confusion. Rather, it stems from a deep awareness of the powerful intellectual effects of the fall and the reality-distorting power of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Judging by outward appearances tends to be useful in confirming what we already believed to be true, but it is not how God looks at the world”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.”6 This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up from our loves, which, as we’ve observed, are habits we’ve acquired through the practices we’re immersed in. That means the formation of my loves and desires can be happening “under the hood” of consciousness. I might be learning to love a telos that I’m not even aware of and that nonetheless governs my life in unconscious ways.”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“Jesus’s command to follow him is a command to align our loves and longings with his—to want what God wants, to desire what God desires, to hunger and thirst after God and crave a world where he is all in all—a vision encapsulated by the shorthand “the kingdom of God.”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“Once again, Jesus was right all along. We are most ourselves when we’re thinking least about ourselves.”
― Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making