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“True enough, the higher orders are a bit less bound than the lower orders by these parameters of time and place. But we were never meant to be free of them; only free in them and for them.“

“… They need to be on guard only against the self-conscious smallness of mind which will whisper, ‘pretentiousness!’ In their ear. Their answers to such insinuation must always be, ‘dry up! We are pretenders to a throne here.’l

Reaching God is easy; all final causes do that. But if you get the closest one wrong, you can very easily miss the uniqueness. God has in mind for you.

Man is the animal who cooks his food. Yes. But man cooks his food because he’s the only animal who dines.”

“The Table is made for dining; dining is for your pleasure in company; companionship makes you friends in love; and love makes you friends with God. It is the first and simplest sacrament of all the rest, and therefore it deserves a place of honor: a careful consideration before even a word is said about the single efficient cause of cookery.”

“The only ultimate explanation is that you and she are both creatures of the Creator who runs the world by delight, and that your delight in the bath has, at its final cause, nothing less than the good pleasure of God.”

“the rules for your renewal must be radical indeed if they are to have power enough to jolt you out of your worn, but aimless ways. For your seasoning has become what it is precisely because you have been Lawless without rule in the practice of it.” —— on reducing your spice cupboard to 5 spices (the retreat).

“All distinctively human activity involves a kind of priestly lifting of nature into forms that, while new to nature its self, are actually elations and perfections of it.”

“Man, when he sprinkles his oregano, is doing in his uniquely human way what the stars in their courses do in their own: moving, in response to delight, towards Delight Himself”

“If we are not fit for solitude, we will never be anything but in dangerous company.”

“They forget that humanity is a social as well as an individual notion, that no one of us can ever hold the fullness of human nature in himself alone, and that frequently, others will have to supply for us those aspects of our nature which we lack.”