Jason Shaw

“I couldn’t find words, but I could kneel. I could submit to God through my knees, and I’d lift my hands to hold up an ache: a fleshy, unnamable longing that I carried around my ribs. I’d offer up an aching body with my hands, my knees, my tears, my lifted eyes. My body led in prayer and led me—all of me, eventually even my words—into prayer.4”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness. Religion in our time has been captured by a tourist mindset. . . . We go to see a new personality, to hear a new truth, to get a new experience and so somehow to expand our otherwise humdrum life.”5”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“Many feel that the church (if it’s necessary at all) is primarily intended to serve our individual spiritual needs or to group us together with like-minded people—a kind of holy fraternity. If we believe that church is merely a voluntary society of people with shared values, then it is entirely optional. If the church helps you with your personal relationship with God, great; if not, I know a great brunch place that’s open on Sunday. But while an individual relationship with Jesus is an important part of the Christian life, it is not the sum total of the Christian life.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“Czesław Miłosz wrote in his poem “One More Day”: Though the good is weak, beauty is very strong . . . And when people cease to believe that there is good and evil Only beauty will call to them and save them So that they still know how to say: this is true and that is false.21”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life