Suzanne Noakes

“The web, by “collapsing” categories of human thought into one flat medium, pushes away from deep, personal reflection and toward the neural rewards of the notification and the Like button.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“they really don’t want others to agree with them. Their status as enlightened ones must be preserved.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“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

“If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age