Linda Baker

“Love is the only way we will make it through what is to come. Love is not romantic ectasy. It has to be a kind of love that has been honed and intensified through regular prayer, fasting, and repentance and, for many Christians, through receiving the holy sacraments. And it must be a love that has been refined through suffering. There is no other way.”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life. So I like to ask; How is this book changing mine?”
― Will Schwalbe, Books for Living

“Though Donald Trump won the presidency in part with the strong support of Catholics and Evangelicals, the idea that someone as robustly vulgar, fiercely combative, and morally compromised as Trump will be an avatar for the restoration of Christian morality and social unity is beyond delusional. He is not a solution to the problem of America’s cultural decline, but a symptom of it. The”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

“Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love," which is, frankly, just temporary insanity.”
― Barton Goldsmith, The Happy Couple: How to Make Happiness a Habit One Little Loving Thing at a Time