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“To desire the aid of grace is the beginning of grace.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
In contrast, it is an emphasis on action, and particularly God’s action in worship, that Wolterstorff distills as the “genius” of Reformed and Protestant worship. “The liturgy as the Reformers understood and practiced it consists of God acting and us responding through the work of the Spirit.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Not to be encompassed by the greatest, but to let oneself be encompassed by the smallest—that is divine.
Pope Benedict XVI • Introduction To Christianity, 2nd Edition (Communio Books)
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The Church faces the same temptation today: the temptation to be a Church other than the one willed by the Father by accepting people’s criteria of what a proper church should be.
Francis Martin, William M. Wright IV • The Gospel of John
who hears you, hears me,”49 the faithful receive with docility the teachings and directives that their pastors give them in different forms.