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“We are being prepared for eternity every time we behold beauty. We can’t crucify beauty without steadily walking into hell.”

Delightfully narrated by the author, listening to the audiobook was a rambling, nourishing adventure. Shaw expertly weaves story throughout the book, as only a master storyteller could. Fantastic.

“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me. Though repeated, it’s not a mantra, it’s not a spell, but an act of extremely beautiful contrition. It’s powerful. Powerful beyond pronouncements of self-loathing and masochistic admonishments. It is a settling of your knees into the millennia-weathered grooves of other pilgrims’ prostrations.“