John

“Love is vulnerable. Love is family. Love is Life. We hurt one another. We just do. But we also need one another. We all know hurt people hurt people. Wounded people lash out in anger and in fear. I like to call them porcupines. These are people who desperately want a hug, but if you dare hug them, you will probably be stabbed.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“I think if we are going to err (and we are going to err), then erring on the side of Love is where I want to be.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“The idea of loving and helping “broken” people seems romantic. I’m going to rescue girls from the sex trade. I’m going to see addicts freed from drugs. I’m going to protect abused women. Then you get hurt.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“In our fight for justice, it is all too easy to mirror the hatred we encounter. Sometimes we must take a stand for the ones who are being oppressed, but when we do it out of a motive of Love, maybe the world moves one step closer to looking like heaven.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district