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“You don’t have the right to choose for me.” “No,” I told her. “I’ve got the responsibility to help you make the right choice.”
“Lanre was always where the fight was thickest, where he was needed most. His sword never left his hand or rested in its sheath.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“We are spiritually formed (for good or ill) by any number of things, but particularly by those things that are repetitive, embodied, and impart a larger meaning.”
― The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
― The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can’t quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die. But that is the mirage.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
― Carrie Soto Is Back
“Our worship—corporately or individually—glorifies him above all else, and he has made it abundantly clear that the way we treat other people is a big part of how he views our worship.”
― The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
― The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
“With Mortality, especially as it affects art and the creative (or as I should say, sub-creative) desire which seems to have no biological function, and to be apart from the satisfactions of plain ordinary biological life, with which, in our world, it is indeed usually at strife.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
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