Monica
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“So convinced God lived in the boxes I’d constructed, I failed to look for God in God’s favorite place: the margins.”
― Wholehearted Faith
― Wholehearted Faith
“If you find yourself trapped inside a dimming world, remember it was always this dark inside the body. Where the heart, like the law, stops only for the living.
If you find yourself, then congratulations, your hands are yours to keep.
If you forget me, then you've gone too far. Turn back.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
If you find yourself, then congratulations, your hands are yours to keep.
If you forget me, then you've gone too far. Turn back.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“All Sabbath is rest, but not all rest is Sabbath. Rest is not Sabbath if your comfort is contingent on others' discomfort. Rest is not Sabbath if it exacerbates inequity rather than diminishing it.”
― Wholehearted Faith
― Wholehearted Faith
“Acknowledging uncertainty doesn't make a person less faithful; it just makes her more honest. Admitting how much we don't know doesn't make a person less faithful; it just makes him more candid - and perhaps more curious. Anne Lamott has chronicled the meanderings of the heart as well as anyone, and as she famously puts it, " The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.”
― Wholehearted Faith
― Wholehearted Faith
“How boring to spend the whole of my vocational energy trying to figure out if I am choosing the right work. It is of much greater interest to me to talk about how I’m going to do the work with integrity. How am I going to protect dignity as I work? And what truths are calling out to me as I work?”
― This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
― This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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