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Nice that I am apparently in my prime. Less nice that Socrates thinks women and children are like very useful cows.

Every time I sit down to read this book I want to read it for four more hours than I have time for

“[A]t all time she had the Psalter with her like a good traveling companion who never fails.”

“The throne of God in the world is not on human thrones, but human depths, in the manger. Standing around his throne are no flattering vassals but dark, unknown, questionable figures who cannot get their fill of this miracle and want to live entirely by the mercy of God.”

“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”

“Contemplate the whole of Christ’s Passion, even to His last breath, and never once wilt thou find Him to have been moved in any way against His enemies[.]”

“The quest for blessings [that are] measured in material terms only, is like the Hausa proverb ‘a kama ganye a saki reshe’: the fellow who is falling from a tree and desperate to save his life holds on to the leaves of the tree rather than the branches.”

“They would say,” he answered, “that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.”

“We will never reach a point in our Christian life where we won’t need to remember our weakness and God’s complete sufficiency….Like the occupational therapists who can form new pathways of the brain to help the brain properly store memories through physical exercises, the spiritual disciplines are God putting us in physical situations where we must face our depravity and his sufficiency.“

Essayist David Yeago quoting Luther:

"She leads the choir, and we should follow her with singing."

"[Mary is] our dear professor and teacher."

"[The Magnificat] lacks nothing; it is well sung, and needs only people who can say yes to it and wait. But such people are few."