“What I was learning in the church was in sharp contrast to the theology of self-sacrificing love I wrestled with. It wasn’t the willingness to bear pain, or carry the burdens of others that transformed life in the places where life had been harmed by violence. It was strong relationships among human beings who offered their presence to one another.”
― Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us
― Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us
“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”
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