Sublime

I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

And because writers are image bearers of the one true God, despite the curse we reflect the goodness of his creation when we work to make our creations good.

It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.

she saw in the work reflected a glory in its maker, that the painting was the painter as the poem is the poet, that every choice one made alone—every word chosen or rejected, every brush stroke laid or not laid down—betrayed one’s character. Style is character.”26

I also believe that for the sake of discipleship it is crucial to immerse oneself in a community of practice that exhibits the reformative potential we’ve been describing. Your heart is at stake.

the Christian cultural critic Ken Myers, distills what culture is and why it matters: Culture is what we make of the world.

If you are a creature of habit whose loves have been deformed by disordered secular liturgies, then the best gift God could give you is Spirit-infused practices that will reform and retrain your loves.

Beneath all of this, Weil says, is a loss of any sense of God.