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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
For certainly no one does more harm in the Church than one who has the name and rank of sanctity, while he acts perversely.
The Book of Pastoral Rule
Saint Gregory the Great
In short, we will only adequately “read” our culture to the extent that we recognize operative there an array of liturgies that function as pedagogies of desire.
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
The most constant “whim,” historically, has been the disastrous idea just mentioned: that Jesus is here giving laws. For if that is all he is doing, they will certainly be laws that are impossible to keep. The keeping of law turns out to be an inherently self-refuting aim; rather, the inner self must be changed. Trying merely to keep the law is not wholly unlike trying to make an apple tree bear peaches by tying peaches to its branches.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
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