Barre Above Quotes

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Above all this the stars shine. Willem pauses for a moment and feels the world turn as he struggles to pick out the Southern Cross among the interstellar static, He's never seen a sky so big or so bright. It's dizzying and he spins slowly to take it all in...

Our beauty-less theological roots can issue forth in a fairly pragmatic value system. As mentioned above, we have even named ourselves based on one practical, measurable activity: getting out the good news.19 But are God’s values equally pragmatic? What if God really did set beauty on par with truth and goodness? Has our more utilitarian approach given us a skewed perspective on God and Christian duty?