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Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.
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“Yeah, well, we're all strong-ass women until a smoke alarm starts chirping at three a.m. on a high ceiling and there's no one to hit it with a broom but you.”
― Part of Your World
― Part of Your World
“How does anyone who suffers unfairly feel that mostly what God does is love them? When they feel that love from us. For those suffering, God might be too difficult to believe in, too far removed, too esoteric a concept to be felt. Who can blame them? But love, care, and touch from a fellow human being right alongside them should not be.”
― Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
― Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
“Mostly what God does is love you. To believe this about God is the essence of faith. Giving God the benefit of the doubt in a world that invites cynicism and despair. I’ve always felt believing in God isn’t really the hard part. Believing he is good and actively engaged in our lives and the world in the face of so much pain, that’s the hard part. God does not require us to ignore, or gloss over the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see, but to believe past them. Believe that he is on the case, that his intentions toward us are good, that he is ever inclined toward forgiveness, and reconciliation. That the pains of this world are not his original plan, and will not be how the story ends. This is faith.”
― Mostly What God Does Is Love You
― Mostly What God Does Is Love You
“I have a hard time believing God outright causes evil and suffering. It isn’t consistent with the God I know. But at the same time, we face an excruciating and undeniable fact: sometimes, he allows it. And if he allows suffering, when he could stop it, what’s the difference? It might as well be him causing it. I don’t like this truth, but I can’t run from it, or sugar coat it. If we really believe in an all powerful God, one with supernatural sovereignty over time and space, then we must believe he possesses the power to protect us, and shield us from harm. And sometimes doesn’t use it. Why? This is the ultimate “why God?” for me. The ultimate threat to my faith. I can imagine no greater challenge to our belief than when something devastating happens to us, or even worse, someone we love.”
― Mostly What God Does Is Love You
― Mostly What God Does Is Love You
“Beyond the costs, significant though they are, if I quit now I know it will irk me every month when I see that retirement check deposited in my bank account. I know that I will look at that money and think 'I let them do this to me.' I'm not going to let these sons of bitches pick my pocket in retirement.
I keep thinking about the people who attacked not only me, but the books. They say it was for the first amendment. Well, I'm here for the first amendment too; we have that in common. They also say they did it to protect children. We've got that in common too. I'm all about protecting children and their right to information. If we can have a conversation and not a screaming match around these two foundational principles, there may be hope." Martha Hickson, a New Jersey high school librarian”
― The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
I keep thinking about the people who attacked not only me, but the books. They say it was for the first amendment. Well, I'm here for the first amendment too; we have that in common. They also say they did it to protect children. We've got that in common too. I'm all about protecting children and their right to information. If we can have a conversation and not a screaming match around these two foundational principles, there may be hope." Martha Hickson, a New Jersey high school librarian”
― The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
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