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“religion has always understood that directing human attention toward what is holy is supremely important. This is why medieval Christendom was filled with prayers, rituals, fasts, and feasts: to keep life, both public and private, ordered around things divine.10”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

“Publicly and privately, it were much better for the age in which he lived, that he and the legion of whom he was one were designedly bad, than indifferent and purposeless.  It is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol: The Original 1843 Edition

“Raise your kids to know that your family is different—and don’t apologize for it. It’s not a matter of snobbery. It’s about imbuing kids with the conviction that there are some things that people in our family just do not do—and that’s okay.”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation