“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
Robert Hass (1941) American poet
Source: Praise
“The dilemma posed by consumerism is not the endless manufacturing of desires, but the temptation to settle for desires far below what we were created for.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
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