Anna Broadway > Quotes

“The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to 'build our house on a rock,' but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on the house. As if surety comes from construction, not from the foundation.”
― Anna Broadway, Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity

“What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.”
― Anna Broadway, Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity

“Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin.”
― Anna Broadway, Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity

“The strange thing about adulthood, when you're single, is that it's possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent consequence - it was easy to self-congratulate on how much our relationship owed to my 'righteousness,' generosity, and enlightened theological views. Though for the past twenty months or so I'd been hearing a pastor who's constant theme was grace, it didn't hit home until I faced this proof of what the Bible says God considers depravity.”
― Anna Broadway, Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity