“You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!”
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall.”
― Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
― Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.”
"So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?"
I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.”
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"So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?"
I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.”
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