Zachary

“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

“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise ailments that were like artefacts passed down the family, inarguable proofs of the theory that since human beings first stood upright, nothing was ever really cured.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child

“I worry that when our gathered worship looks like a rock show or an entertainment special, we are being formed as consumers - people after a thrill and a rush - when what we need is to learn a way of being-in-the-world that transforms us, day by day, by the rhythms of repentance and faith.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life