Francis Spufford

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different. ”

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. ”