Corrie Kreisel
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God’s love is preemptively with us before we try any new prayer practice. There isn’t a spiritual height I need to reach to “unlock” or “earn” God’s love and presence.
“Janet! Donkeys!”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!”
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“If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.”
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“The church has a reputation for being antipleasure. Many characterize Christians in general the way H. L. Mencken wryly described Puritans: people with a “haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy.”3 In reality, the church has led the way in the art of enjoyment and pleasure. New Testament scholar Ben Witherington points out that it was the church, not Starbucks, that created coffee culture.4 Coffee was first invented by Ethiopian monks—the term cappuccino refers to the shade of brown used for the habits of the Capuchin monks of Italy. Coffee is born of extravagance, an extravagant God who formed an extravagant people, who formed a craft out of the pleasures of roasted beans and frothed milk.”
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“Mothers serve their families in all manner of dirty and undignified positions, willingly taking on a workload so extensive and ongoing you could never hire someone to to it.”
― Long Days of Small Things: Motherhood as a Spiritual Discipline
― Long Days of Small Things: Motherhood as a Spiritual Discipline
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