The Holy No
Learning Faithful Limits
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The Holy No
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Geoffrey Schmitt
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The Holy No: Learning Faithful Limits is a pastoral and deeply personal exploration of boundaries as a spiritual practice rather than a failure of love.
Drawing from decades of ministry, caregiving, and lived experience, Geoffrey Schmitt challenges the quiet assumption that faithfulness requires constant availability, exhaustion, or self-erasure. Through Scripture, reflection, prayer, and honest confession, he examines how good intentions can become bad theology, how love can slip into rescue, how guilt and unspoken expectations bind us, and why burnout is not a spiritual virtue.
At the heart of the book is a simple but liberating truth: limits are not selfishness—they are creatureliness. Even Jesus withdrew, left needs unmet, waited for the right hour, and said no without apology. Following his example, this study invites readers to rediscover rest as obedience, discernment as faithfulness, and boundaries as a way love endures.
Written for weary believers, caregivers, clergy, and anyone struggling to say no without guilt, The Holy No offers a gentle but firm invitation to live within the shape God gives—and to trust that God is still at work beyond our limits.