David Phillips

“everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.”
― Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry

“Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.”
― Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry

“You won’t be liberated from deformation by new information. God doesn’t deliver us from the deformative habit-forming power of tactile rival liturgies by merely giving us a book. Instead,”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“We’re all informavores. The drive to know the unknown still exists in us all. It powers the unpredictability of the scarcity loop. It’s that deep, angsty discomfort we feel as we wait for information about an outcome. That could be knowing the falling of slot machine reels, a flood or drought of likes, the shifting of a Robinhood stock, or waiting for a rightward swipe.”
― Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough