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“When I was a Bible-thumping, churchgoing, know-it-all Republican, God used bleeding-heart, politically correct, question-everything liberals to teach me a little bit more about how to be human and to toy with my concretized notions of who my enemies were. And now that I'm a bleeding-heart, politically correct, question-everything liberal, God still insists on using Bible-thumping, churchgoing, know-it-all Republicans to teach me a little bit more about how to be human and to toy with my concretized notions of who my enemies are.”
― Rachel Held Evans

“I remained convinced that it was my job to be Jesus to others, so much so that I missed many chances to let others be Jesus to me-to teach me, heal me, to sit with me, to break bread with me, to listen to me, to weep with me, to call me to repentance, to love me.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

“Forcing you to stay where you have no desire to be... it'll corrode you, make you compromise yourself until you are nothing but a cutout of regrets. You'll only be thinking about the choices you were denied. That's the reason I'm helping you. Let this be the last time you compromise yourself.”
― Aube Rey Lescure

“Even as I still believe that God calls us to help change the world, to make it more just, to make it more equitable, to make it more loving, I also believe that God empowers the world to help change us, to make us more just, to make us more equitable, to make us more loving.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith