Priest (Priest, #1)

by Sierra Simone

‘We learn not for school, but for life.’”

‘If you wish to be loved, love’? I tried that once. It didn’t work out so well.”

‘The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins…That is why a cold, self-righteous prig, who goes regularly to church, may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute.’”

Jealousy is wanting what someone else has, like for example, wanting the same kind of car or house as a neighbor. (Or

Envy is hating the fact that someone else has something you don’t and hating them for having it, like wanting to slash your neighbor’s tires because he doesn’t fucking deserve a BMW and everyone fucking knows it, and if you can’t have it, then it’s no fucking fair that he gets to have one either.

Love is freely and unconditionally given,

“God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are—stumbling, sinning, confused. All He asks of us is love—love for Him, love for others, and love for ourselves. He asks us to lay down our lives—not to live like ascetics, devoid of any pleasure or joy, but to give Him our lives so that He may increase our joy and increase our love.”