Alice

“past wounds,bitterness that's gone unchecked, things you haven't brought up because of shame or fear over how they'll react or insecurity because you just want them to think the best of you- you know there's an issue behind the issue when your reaction is way out of proportion to whatever it is you're fighting about”
― Rob Bell , The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage

“it is written in the scriptures that God gives grace to the humble, and one of the ways you see this most vividly is when you're in a heated argument and your brain is in full defense mode and the accusations are flying and you're both pulling triggers left and right...then one of you pauses and says I'm sorry- and something shifts”
― Rob Bell

“The writer of the Bible were doing something far more significant than trying to write lessons and books and tell stories without errors. To describe the Bible as inerrant, then, is to use a word that actually minimises the importance of what these writers were up to”
― Rob Bell, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

“Nevertheless, it is crucial that British-born Muslims must robustly question their own faith and return to it's original uncontaminated sublimity. Living as they do in a free and democratic country, it should be their intrinsic religious duty as well as undoubted secular necessity to familarise themselves thoroughly with their sacred scripture by not deferring to any imposed theological misinterpretations or reactionary misconceptions circulated by an imperious Islamic Clergy. Only then will British Muslims be able to disseminate an accurate Islam that is not chiefly based on ritualism and formalism, but is grounded on truth and reason, tolerance and logic- as demanded by the faiths primary text ( Qur'an - 109:6)”
― Declan Henry, Voices of Modern Islam: What It Means to Be Muslim Today