Pope Joan Quotes

“As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, but Adam was created outside. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man-for Eve ate of the apple for the love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Some ideas are dangerous.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida reciente.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Indeed,” Aesculapius went on, “is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. ‘Cogito, ergo Deus est,’ argues St. Augustine, ‘I think, therefore God is.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the path must be fraught with fear.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day."
"The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“The incongruity of the sacred altar and its pagan base seemed to Joan a perfect symbol of herself: a Christian priest, she still dreamed of her mother's heathen Gods; a man in the eyes of the world, she was tormented by her secret woman's heart; a seeker of faith, she was torn between her desire to know God and her fear that He might not exist. Mind and heart, faith and doubt, will and desire. Would the painful contradictions of her nature ever be reconciled?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Joan breathed deeply, filling her lungs with the sweet smells of early spring. Her spirit soared like a falcon loosed from its fetters, delivered suddenly to the miraculous freedom of wind in sky.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“She would not trade one set of walls for another.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“abecedarium”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“Dėl paiko smalsumo žmonės kartais net praranda tikėjimą.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan