Something Other than God Quotes

“The Catechism explained that praying for the souls of the dead is a tradition going back to the first Christians and to the Jews before them. On the walls of the catacombs, where the earliest Christians worshipped, there were scrawled prayers for friends who’d died during persecutions. The living sent their love for the deceased into the spiritual world, like adding water to a stream that would eventually float their lost friends home.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

“There’s nothing like nine months of pregnancy and eighteen hours of childbirth to make you see that men and women are really, really different. Men can’t gestate and birth new human life. Women can. There’s a huge area of activity that the sexes do not share. Whether the author of life is God or simply Nature, it seemed to declare that people can have vastly different roles, unavailable to certain other people, and yet all be valued equally.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

“Life is hard. Sometimes things will be good. But often they won’t.” She chuckled at the last sentence, with a certain amusement at life that carried the protection of cynicism, but had all the vulnerability of hope. “Things are easy now, maybe they won’t be tomorrow. We don’t know. But it’s all okay if you have God.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

“That’s Christianity’s whole message: The more you love, the more you’re going to have to give up—you can’t hold anything back. And that’s going to mean suffering. But it’s also going to mean joy and peace.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

“I’m not going to tell you that Jesus has all the answers. He is your only answer.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

“This was not a religion where people came together to focus on the same deity; it was a religion where each person projected a hologram of the divine based on their subconscious issues and desires, and worshipped that.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

“una sociedad solo podía respetar la vida humana si respetaba el acto mismo que crea la vida humana.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Un encuentro inesperado

“«Casi todo lo que llamamos historia humana… [es] la larga y terrible historia del hombre intentando encontrar otra cosa fuera de Dios que lo haga feliz».”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Un encuentro inesperado

“outburst.”
― Jennifer Fulwiler, Something other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It