Fully Alive Quotes

“This is a book designed for those in search of spiritual core strength and curious about what the practices, postures and principles of Christianity might have to teach them.”
― Elizabeth Oldfield, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times

“Wrath, though, disconnects us. Like many of these temptations, it initially feels good. Media content creators know the sad secret of the human soul: wrath, in the form of self-righteous rage and contempt, is a compelling, borderline pleasurable emotion. Historian Noel Annan wrote in his 1990 social history Our Age: “for many more people than we care to admit, moral indignation is the supreme joy in life.”
― Elizabeth Oldfield, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times