Benjamin McMullen

“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.”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“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.”
― Allen Levi, The Last Sweet Mile

“I’m tired of all the death this world keeps insisting on.”
― David Wroblewski, Familiaris

“It is essential to keep together these two complementary ways of looking at the cross. On the human level”
― John R.W. Stott, The Cross of Christ