“I can't teach you much about the world, but I can try to keep you from...” — Allene vanOirschot Quote

“I can't teach you much about the world, but I can try to keep you from becoming part of it.”

“Jesus, let me see You in the manger and remember that the hope of the world rests in the shadow of the Cross behind it.”

“The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.”

“Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.”

“Without faith, we are spiritually naked, poor, miserable, lost, condemned, and have no hope.”

“Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”

“I am not an atheist,”

“Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”