Baarenhof Quotes & Sayings

Her sadness was ceaseless, but she kept it quarantined in a governable little quarter of her heart. It was the best she could do. — Elizabeth Gilbert

you simply need to unchain yourself from the past. Then you may find that you have all the power that you need once the past has been released. To let go of the past may be the most meaningful action you will ever take. — Max Strom

The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which we cannot when the main social task of the church is to serve as one among many helpful props for the state. — Stanley Hauerwas

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson