Sometimes the church must be a refuge even to its own refugees.
“I see a huge monster, and his name is Religion, and I am finally brave enough to be angry with him, because he has stolen God away from me, making Him into a tame little puny judge with graying hair who raps his wooden mallet and squeaks out, "You're forever guilty.”
― Thrashing About with God: Finding Faith on the Other Side of Everything
― Thrashing About with God: Finding Faith on the Other Side of Everything
“I don’t have to agree with everything that is being said and done at church in order to be at church, just as I don’t have to agree with everything other people say and do in order to engage with other people.”
― Thrashing About with God: Finding Faith on the Other Side of Everything
― Thrashing About with God: Finding Faith on the Other Side of Everything
“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“How we speak to a waiter, treat a beggar, spend a dollar—with every action we take, we are creating the world we live in. We get to decide whether our contribution to this story is patience or exasperation, compassion or condemnation, awareness or foolishness, liberation or enslavement. We can’t go back and erase the parts we’re not proud of, but we can move forward different and better.”
― The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever
― The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever
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