“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.”
Quote by T.S. Eliot
“The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.”
Source: Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
“The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them; our passions, our disgusts, and our ambitions are learned. Just as we have evolved ways of transmuting physical elements from one to another, so we have evolved ways of transmuting experience into meaning.”
“Quando se deu conta disso, a tristeza avançou silenciosamente, como água. Era uma tristeza transparente, sem forma. A tristeza era dele mesmo, mas, ao mesmo tempo, se encontrava em algum lugar distante, longe do seu alcance. O peito doeu como se parte dele tivesse sido arrancada, e se sentiu sufocado.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“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)”
Source: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above as noncognitive "dispositions" acquired through practices. So how does one acquire such virtues, such dispositions of desire? Through participation in concrete Christian practices like confession.”
Source: Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
“As of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation.”
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“God is the ultimate Master of all Arts. For He made Creation without any reference to any previous formation.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“Many people live along with you; you are not the one.
Life is not enough to understand the many we have.
Do not distress, open-up, explore the world.”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“Others have passed faith onto us and we borrow those customs and traditions that help form us. But, sometimes, we also need to adopt new practices that helps us on the journey.”
Source: Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart
“I wished I could read the personalities of young children more easily, but because the early years were all about formation, true personalities didn't start showing up until nine or ten years of age.”
Source: In the Middle of Hickory Lane