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 Jennifer Clarvoe
We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen
Do you know how, sometimes, when you first wake up, your pulse is so thorough, so slow, that you, and the one who is with you, and the room, and the opening light all seem to swelland subside and swell inside your heart?
One probably hears about it. One, wire, recognizes. One holds her bones up next to each other. One insists, grinding the clutch. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>One would powder and powder. One would ask out of the back of the throat. One refuses. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>One is...
Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.
And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.
