[On our aversion to mundane repetition] “The paradox may be unraveled, I think, if we remember that when human beings try to “do everything at once and for all and be through with it,” we court acedia, self-destruction, and death. Such power is reserved for God, who alone can turn what is “already done” into something that is ongoing and ever present.” p. 42
[on lofty religious language] “…language as this, lovely and resonant as it is, can cushion the radical nature of our intimacy with God and make Christian discipleship sound far too easy. What seems terribly spiritual, holy and mysterious can lull us into an unholy complacency, and lead us away from probing the areas of our lives that need the most attention if we are to be faithful to God and to each other…such religious language requires us to be vigilant and to guard against spiritual vainglory, against anything that would allow us to dis-incarnate our faith and escape into the ether of gnosticism.”p. 52-53