You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.

Leif Enger
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  1. Hate the sin, love the sinner. - Mahatma Gandhi

  2. 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. - Criss Jami

  3. 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.... - Melina Marchetta

  4. 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. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  5. 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... - Mary Daly

More Quotes By Leif Enger
  1. How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid in prayer and sorrow. Since that fearful night, Dad has responded with the almost impossible work of belief. He had burned with repentence...

  2. Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

  3. ....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

  4. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

  5. We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, and bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong." The Cowboy's Lament

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