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“The intimacy you offer God during times of shame and sin is an especially profound intimacy, reflecting an especially deep trust. He will not reject it.”
― Eve Tushnet, Tenderness: A Gay Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God’s Extravagant Love

“… it's typically easier for a gay person who grows up outside the Church to know God's love than for a gay person who had a Catholic upbringing.
The children of the Church, who should be the most confident in God's love, the ones who know best what God is like, are instead
the ones who grow up uncertain of God's love and afraid that there's no place for them in the Church...
Even (especially?) gay people who have always tried to do right and be good Christian kids often wake up one day in their twenties or thirties and realize that they have never really believed that
God cherished them. They have always felt, on some level, that God was disgusted by them and did not delight in them the way he delighted in people with more conventional desires.”
― Eve Tushnet, Tenderness: A Gay Christian's Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God's Extravagant Love

“I think God speaks something meaningful into our lives and it fills us up and helps us change the world regardless of ourselves and our shortcomings. His name for us is His beloved. He hopes that we’ll believe Him like I came to believe what the coach said about me. He hopes we’ll start to see ourselves as His beloved rather than think of all of the reasons that we aren’t.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“So many of us have been taught a model of obedience that is really a form of self-harm.
This is not God, and this is not God's Church.”
― Eve Tushnet, Tenderness: A Gay Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God’s Extravagant Love