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grabbing hold of their greatest fears and exposing them for precisely what they are: shortcomings and miscalculations disguised as a perfect plan.
“I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.”
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“Below birds crossing the lake of the sky
and purple martins on power lines, down
to the trees and one thing my brother said
that stays with me from Long Island to Vermont,
something about trees being conductors
of spirit ...”
― Ivory Cradle
and purple martins on power lines, down
to the trees and one thing my brother said
that stays with me from Long Island to Vermont,
something about trees being conductors
of spirit ...”
― Ivory Cradle
“Getting sober never felt like I had pulled myself up by my own spiritual bootstraps. It felt instead like I was on one path toward destruction and God pulled me off of it by the scruff of my collar, me hopelessly kicking and flailing and saying, 'Screw you. I’ll take the destruction please.' God looked at tiny, little red-faced me and said, 'that’s adorable,' and then plunked me down on an entirely different path.”
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
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