A God Who Looks Like Me Quotes

“Our search for a God who looks like us begins in our own lives. She will be found there.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“God is a man like my father. He is distant. He is God the father. He is strict. He does not laugh. He has no meaning in my life. He is somewhere else.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“The face of God that I internalized was of an angry and disappointed father whom I could never cheer up or please.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“I am afraid of being swallowed up and then spit out as no longer desirable or useful. If I do not have a family to make it all worthwhile as I grow older. I think I will die.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“If God is male, I am other than God, limited and second-rate.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“I feel punished. Yet my only crime was being born. As a child I felt my sin, so I rejected myself. I didn't like the feel of my skin. I didn't like being inside my body. The image of Eve biting the apple left me with a lot of shame.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“Before she is born, especially if she will be the firstborn, the girl-child will be imagined as a boy.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“We compete for the attention of the gods.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“We cannot imagine a God who bleeds like us.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“Embedded within all women is a deep sense that we are flawed and that we are to atone for Eve's sin.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“Honor all that has been demeaned.
Receive all that has been cast aside.
I am good. I am very good.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“Those among you who are curious, who lust for life in all its fluidity, dare with me: Bite into life, eat of the fullness of its possibility.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“I voided the spiritual death that comes from fragmentation of the soul. And while the abyss I fell into was terrifying, I now see it as the necessary prelude to the fullness I'm stepping into.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me

“I try to hide my judgmental ways.
I hide my strong need to project perfect pictures.
I hide the times when I feel nothing, when I'm numb and hollow.
I hide the fact that I've never been married.
I hide my food binges.
I hide my anger from my family.
I hide the flaw of being needy and human.
I hide the fact that I once chose an abusive man and became a battered woman.”
― Patricia Lynn Reilly, A God Who Looks Like Me