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“In practice I regarded prayer as somehow more spiritual than sitting on a committee, preaching as more anointed than plumbing. Only the revelation of Christ's Humanity infused vigor into my bloodless theoretical doctrine.”
― This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
― This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“modern ‘scientific’ sociology, whose achievement has been to obscure by means of statistical legerdemain the importance of human consciousness,”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
“Thus I found that I had been encamped with the ancient Arameans. They thought God was present only on the mountains;[10] I thought God was present only in the present.”
― This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
― This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
“Our flesh, having been worn by the Most High Himself is the most noble mantle of all. The Manicheans and Buddhists and Platonists on the one hand, who belittle this flesh, and the gluttons and lechers and egoists on the other, who are slaves to it, are still living in division.”
― This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
― This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
Luís’s 2019 Year in Books
Take a look at Luís’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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