Rachel

“Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“Some rabbis say that, at birth, we are each tied to God with a string, and that every time we sin, the string breaks. To those who repent of their sins, especially in the days of Rosh Hashanah, God sends the angel Gabriel to make knots in the string, so that the humble and contrite are once again tied to God. Because each one of us fails, because we all lose our way on the path to righteousness from time to time, our strings are full of knots. But, the rabbis like to say, a string with many knots is shorter than one without knots. So the person with many sins but a humble heart is closer to God.”
― Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

“But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“Control is a drug, and we are all hooked, whether or not we believe in the prosperity gospel’s assurance that we can master the future with our words and attitudes.”
― Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved