Mike

“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling.3”
― Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex – A Theology of Sexuality and Spirituality for Believers

“Edna St. Vincent Millay: “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.”
― Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex – A Theology of Sexuality and Spirituality for Believers

“Intimacy requires mutuality: mutual vulnerability, mutual disclosure and openness, mutual invitation and consent (obvious, but worth stating).”
― Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex – A Theology of Sexuality and Spirituality for Believers

“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone