Cari Donaldson > Quotes

“Trace any pagan deity back far enough and you’re left with a personification of the earth. Even I wasn’t dumb enough to think that this planet was the creator of all life throughout the cosmos.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“It wasn’t until I had given God my obedience in this area of Church teaching that He flooded my heart with the graces necessary to understand it. Anything else would have been a violation of my free will.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“I got really good at ignoring Queen of Peace Catholic Church. This was a stunning testament to the powers of denial when you considered just how huge and how turquoise its tin roof was.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“The world is not going to hold back from promoting its religion, politics, morals, or ethics to your child, so why should you? By saying, “Let the child choose for himself,” you’re really saying, “Let the culture consume this child,” because that’s what’s going to happen.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“We had a Savior who didn’t live capriciously. Every moment of His life on earth was rife with meaning and purpose. Why would He leave His Church subject to the whims and fancies of time and culture?”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemmed from the very nature of conventional education.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“Poor humanity — to be burdened with the desire to know a God who seemed to delight in hiding from them.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“Until I saw God as a human, I never appreciated how impossible it is for man to grasp the immensity of God’s commitment to us.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories

“If Christ had in fact set up a central authority in His Church, then all the objections I had to things like an unmarried, all-male clergy or bans on birth control were problems with my understanding, not Christianity.”
― Cari Donaldson, Pope Awesome and Other Stories