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“The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

“The Canadian-American journalist Jane Jacobs once described this life of the city’s streets and in its neighbourhoods as a ‘dance’ of constant movement and change: not a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time … but an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. It is this dance, this ‘ballet of the good city sidewalk’, that makes the city a place worth being, a human place.”
― Simon Carey Holt, Eating Heaven: Spirituality at the Table

“It was the twentieth-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre who described the café as a ‘fullness of being’. Throughout its history, Sartre and many others like him have found at the café table something life-giving. Most often it has to do with its provision of space that is both personal and public, secluded yet connected. This communion of the café table is not first about intimacy but connection no less. Very often the communal nature of the café is found in its anonymity amidst life.”
― Simon Carey Holt, Eating Heaven: Spirituality at the Table

“I’m relatively young, which means that even when my heart is in the right place, my eyes fail me because they haven’t really learned to see.”
― Gary A. Molander, Pursuing Christ. Creating Art.: Exploring Life at the Intersection of Faith and Creativity