Zachary

“We recognize far too seldom that religious and confirmation instruction and the Sunday school can in no way give what previous generations knew from home through Bible reading and what was learned from pious parents. Today the need of the hour for the Lutheran Church is to become a teaching church again.”
― Hermann Sasse, We Confess Anthology 53-1037 404969/01

“How should we respond when we find the Word perplexing or dry or boring or unappealing? We keep eating. We receive nourishment. We keep listening and learning and taking our daily bread.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius