Gaertner Quotes & Sayings

that there is a certain twenty-four-hours-a-day relentlessness to caring for young children that makes it hard to think straight. — Joanna Faber

After all, what does the stock market sell us if not the unfounded hope of a rosy future? — Haruki Murakami

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift. — Thomas C. Oden

When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact. — Wendell Berry

Those who know ask to receive.Those who understand seek to experience or find.Those that are wise knock on open doors — Ikechukwu Joseph