Notes & Highlights for The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg

mine. People who have turned the world on its axis across history have called humanity to love. It’s time to dare this more bravely in our midst, and dare learning together how love can be practical, creative, and sustained as a social good, not merely a private good.

build your eulogy virtues, the problem is that they keep getting crowded out by old habits and the daily grind. You don’t quite get to that first hour listening to a friend because of that oh-so-pressing last hour of work.

Children must be very indulgent to the grown-ups.

Spiritual formation in Christ requires a lot of rehabituation precisely because we build up so many disordered habits over a lifetime. This is also why the spiritual formation of children is one of the most significant callings of the body of Christ. Every child raised in the church and in a Christian home has the opportunity to be immersed in king