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“As long as we want to decide for ourselves where we will find God, we need not fear that we shall meet him! We will meet only ourselves, a touched-up version of ourselves. Genuine spirituality begins when we are prepared to die. Could there be a quicker way to die than to let God form our lives from moment to moment and continually to consent to his action?”

“There can be so much escapism in our striving for a ‘spiritual life.’ We often flee from the concrete, apparently banal reality that is filled with God’s presence to an artificial existence that corresponds with our own ideas of piety and holiness but where God is not present.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

Reading this book is so healing. I feel like I’m becoming a human again lol

“A lot of people seem to think that the point of the moral life is continence, as if we were made for a lifetime’s tool of scales, arpeggios, and etudes. In fact, the point of the moral life is virtue. We are made for concert performance. We are made to fire on all cylinders and to do so as if effortlessly.”

This book makes me want a life of virtue (& hope that it’s possible)!

“This life is not a place of arrival. It is a place of departure. There is nothing here upon which we can hang our whole heart’s love. There is only one goal and horizon of ultimate meaning for us: We are made for God, and ‘our hearts are restless until they rest in him.’”

“Cannot you be grateful for the road though it be rough and uncertain? It does all a road was ever made to do. It takes you home.”