On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Yet, unable to circumvent the blockage and walk through this door, we are more attuned than ever, in the age of authenticity, to our feelings and individual expressions. Therefore, we can’t help feeling the cross-pressure, sensing an echo of lost transcendence we try to ignore. We have to ignore it because it has been negated. But in the oddest way
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James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
We want something that nothing in this life can give us. If we keep pursuing it in this world, it can make us driven, resentful, or self-hating. If we try to harden our hearts so that it doesn’t bother us, we harm our humanity and those around us. If, however, we don’t harden ourselves, and fully feel the grief of desire’s lost hope, we may find se
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