Amie

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“God loves the believer and the nonbeliever all the same.

Yeah, but I don't love him back. I left that abusive relationship a long time ago, Titus thought.”
― S. A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue