Hallowed Be This House Quotes

“The commonplaces of household life are parts of the rite in which we celebrate the mystery of Charity—and it is indeed a mystery, full of outrageous absurdities like obedience being a form of liberty, self-denial a form of self-discovery, giving a form of receiving, and service a form of exaltation. Politics boggles at mysteries like this; but in Christian households the hunch is that they are all clues to what the Real Drama is about.”
― Thomas Howard, Hallowed Be This House: Finding Signs of Heaven in Your Home

“Do they not both mean “I owe this to you and I acknowledge it gratefully”? In the one case it may be a button sewed on or a door held open. In the other it is salvation. By getting accustomed to this simple, routine way of acknowledging our debts to each other, are we not thereby getting accustomed to what the City of God is like?”
― Thomas Howard, Hallowed Be This House: Finding Signs of Heaven in Your Home