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“So it is precisely our allergy to repetition in worship that has undercut the counterformative power of Christian worship—because all kinds of secular liturgies shamelessly affirm the good of repetition.”
― James K.A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): How Worship Works

“Richard Dawkins and his followers have recycled the theory of evolution not as a biological theory but as a theory of everything – of what the human being is, what human communities are, what our problems are and how they’re not really our problems, but the problems of our genes: we’re simply answers that our genes have come up with, and it’s rather awful to be the answer to someone else’s question, especially when that thing is not a person at all. Nevertheless people swallow that.”
― Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World

“God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.”
― Tim Keller

“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression