“If the experience of delight presupposes a sustained, patient, sympathetic, and affectionate embrace of the world, then the decline of delight will be preceded by the erosion of the practical conditions that make such an embrace possible. What trends and… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“work is ultimately to be about a finer attunement to the world as the place of God’s sustaining presence. With an awareness of God… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“The root of all sin is fear: the very deep fear that we are nothing; the compulsion, therefore, to make something of ourselves, to… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“If the experience of delight presupposes a sustained, patient, sympathetic, and affectionate embrace of the world, then the decline of delight will be preceded… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is the power that transforms desire and satisfaction, love and possession, into life, that fulfills everything in the world, given to us by… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“To meet and know God people must therefore begin with a deep commitment to serve life as they meet it because this is where… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“We were created as celebrants of the sacrament of life, of its transformation into life in God, communion with God … [R]eal life is… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“The evidence of the early church suggests that the community of followers ate together regularly and often, and that in their eating they tried… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“The inability to understand the spiritual roots of gluttony (as the inability to sacrifice) or to appreciate a culture’s role in fostering this anxious… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.” — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“To “remember Jesus” in their eating was not simply to recall a past event. It was to call on Jesus and invite him to… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
![“We were created as celebrants of the sacrament of life, of its transformation into life in God, communion with God … [R]eal life is “eucharist,” a movement of love and adoration toward God, the movement in which alone the meaning and value of all that exists can be revealed and fulfilled … [I]n…” quote by Norman Wirzba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/515/norman-wirzba-41338_change_we-were-created-as-celebrants-of-the-sac_1707178.jpg)
