The old man was of a growing persuasion that the world had become a much too noisy place, too full of manufactured sounds, unruly speech, and angry voices. And he was pleased, in these unsought moments of sleeplessness, to sit and surrender
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“I’m tired of all the death this world keeps insisting on.”
― Familiaris
― Familiaris
“Increasingly, I am convinced that the Kingdom of God moves forward most enduringly when ordinary people do small things kindly and well over a long period of time.”
― The Last Sweet Mile
― The Last Sweet Mile
“By God’s design, the sustenance that keeps you from dying is not bitter or tasteless but endless varieties of delicious. The necessary is needlessly delightful. This marriage of survival and delight is not a happy accident but a strategically planted clue to the secret of everything. This universe is the creation of a God so rich and full in himself that he needs nothing and no one else to be infinitely satisfied. This universe is not a symptom of need but a signature of generosity.”
― Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness
― Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness
“I don’t think my way into consumerism. Rather, I’m covertly conscripted into a way of life because I have been formed by cultural practices that are nothing less than secular liturgies. My loves have been automated by rituals I didn’t even realize were liturgies. These tangible, visceral, repeated practices carry a story about human flourishing that we learn in unconscious ways. These practices are loaded with their own teleological orientation toward a particular vision of the good life, a rival version of the kingdom, and by our immersion in them we are—albeit unwittingly—being taught what and how to love.”
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“It is essential to keep together these two complementary ways of looking at the cross. On the human level”
― The Cross of Christ
― The Cross of Christ
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