Top Ten Quotes: The Common Rule
I’m going to shoot straight with you: there are plenty of books that I choose to read precisely because (a) I don’t want to and (b) I know I desperately need to. The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction was one of those books. I didn’t want to because I knew it would confront me on the lack of so many rules of life. I desperately needed to because of that exact same thing.
A few weeks past reading, and I can honestly say there are still things I’m wrestling with about what I read, but also things I’ve implemented based on the book’s content. The latter has been good for me. The former will – I’m sure – eventually wear me down and I’ll see the error of my ways. 🙂
Here are my top ten favorite quotes:
- …habits form much more than our schedules: they form our hearts.
- A “rule” is a set of habits you commit to in order to grow in your love of God and neighbor.
- Our phones—and whatever has come through them—thus shape the first desires of the morning and order our first prayers for us.
- A redeemed table is one that invites outsiders in.
- When we try to be present everywhere, we end up being present nowhere.
- Daily immersion in the Scriptures resists the anxiety of emails, the anger of news, and the envy of social media.
- Vulnerability and time turn people who have a relationship into people who have a friendship. That’s what friendship is: vulnerability across time.
- We are guaranteed to be formed in consumption unless we ruthlessly pursue curation.
- We were made to feast. Not in order to become full, but because we are full.
- …proper sabbathing is much more about doing than not doing. It’s about doing restful things.
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