Books Quote by Peter Leithart Download Open image ““Literature in the West arose from liturgy.”” — Peter Leithart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.” — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our liturgy has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions, which require… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the first time… — Armin Mohler Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era - that it… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases. It was the outpouring of the heart. Beset… — Herbert Lockyer Copy Share Image
“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“We have still not recovered, in the West, from that act of primary alienation from the source of our earthly lives. No matter how… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place of the… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
“A justified person dies and rises in Christ, and so is delivered from sin, death and domination of flesh. Justification is, to introduce my… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
“Before we can progress in providing answers . . . we have to repent of our questions.” — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
“The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
“A Christian who is willing to take up arms against another Christian is a Christian who has traded in his membership in the post-Babel… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
