Angela

“Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“The God who always wants to clean the slate is hard to believe. Yet the truth about God is that God is too good to be true. And whenever human beings bump into something too good to be true, we decide it’s not true.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“With That Moon Language Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying With that sweet moon Language What every other eye in this world Is dying to Hear.”
― Gregory Boyle