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"My best description of this book is that it is a translation, colored by my own experience, of ancient ideas from disciples and saints who have walked in wisdom before me. Glittering Vices is my attempt to make this material understandable and accessible to contemporary Christians and other students of the vices."

Excited to dive into this as I prep an 8 week section for the High Schoolers on the vices.

"The lack of influence of the Christian church in the world at large today is in my opinion due to one thing only, namely, (God forgive us!) that we are so unlike the description of the Christians that we find in the New testament." (24)

Reading for the Center for Pastor Theologians Learning Cohort on Augustinian Apologetics. Very excited to learn more from this facet of the great bishop's thought.

"Just as the Creator fashions his creation, so the Redeemer forms his redeemed " (73)

"How do we get that framework, that sense of solid structure so that we know where we stand and are therefore able to do our work easily and without anxiety? Christians go to worship. Week by week we enter the place compactly built, 'to which the tribes ascend,' and get a working definition for life: the way God created us, the ways he leads us. We know where we stand." (47)

The chapter, "Gospels of Sin Management" wrecked me.