Whitney

“I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Hey girl, I saw the Apostle Paul and he said for you to greet me with a holy kiss.”
― Matthew Pierce, Homeschool Sex Machine: Babes, Bible Quiz, and the Clinton Years

“And now for me, faith is less of a brick edifice of belief and doctrine and right answers than it is a wide-open sky ringed with pine trees black against a cold sunset, an altar, a welcome, bread and wine, an unfathomably ferocious love, and a profound sense of my belovedness.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; the latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions