The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
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Criss Jami
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance....
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Melina Marchetta
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-, ’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to...
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Mary Daly
More Quotes By Billy Sunday
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
