Life Quote by Norman Wirzba

““To meet and know God people must therefore begin with a deep commitment to serve life as they meet it because this is where God is, at the heart of all life’s intersections.””

Norman Wirzba

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“The evidence of the early church suggests that the community of followers ate together regularly and often, and that in their eating they tried…

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“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…

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“Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.”

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