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“Failure is the path; beauty is the destination. We walk toward beauty on the path of failure. Which is to say that formation occurs at the interplay of failure and beauty.”

Failure Formation

Book:The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“...failure is not the enemy of formation; it is the liturgy of formation.”

Failure Formation

Book:The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“The most alarming part of this is not our bad habits, which we tend to know about. It's our collective assimilation, which is invisible to us. As Annie Dillard says, "How we spend our days is of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard (p. 15)”

Habits Formation

Book:The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“Ordinary habits shape the soul in the most extraordinary ways. (p. 6)”

Worship Habits Formation Liturgy

Book:The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“This is not just a personal matter. It is a public matter of neighbor love. Talking about Jesus while ignoring the way of Jesus has created an American Christianity that is far more American than it is Christian. (p. 17)”

Habits Formation American Christianity

Book:The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction