Stealthy Steps Quotes

“After World War II, the U.S. Armed Forces Special Weapons Command constructed a weapons storage facility in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains on the eastern edge of what is now Kirtland Air Force Base, just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. The storage facility, originally named Site Able, was renamed Manzano Base in February of 1952.”
― Vikki Kestell, Stealthy Steps

“When we presume, we excuse bad behavior and even rationalize our taking the law into our own hands. Hubris blinds us, Gemma. We don’t see our own faults because we’re too busy finding the faults of others.”
― Vikki Kestell, Stealthy Steps

“The worst kind of sin, though, is more insidious. It hides inside of our comparisons of ourselves to others. It says, ‘I’m not as bad as her,’ or ‘He’s really a bad person but I’m nothing like that—so I must be all right.’ “It’s the sin of hubris, Gemma, the sin of pride and its close cousin, presumption. Presumption justifies our actions when we rank another person as beneath or below us. Presumption tells us that it’s okay to talk down to a weaker individual or to treat them badly based on our own sense of superiority; pride allows us to denigrate another human being—someone made in the very image of God—for their weaknesses and flaws.”
― Vikki Kestell, Stealthy Steps

“I dislike religion, Gemma. Religion does a lot of damage to people. It takes what should be the simplest, purest expression of God’s love, something even a child can understand, and replaces it with some kind of formula—a complex and impossible set of rules and behaviors—when it is really about God’s gift of grace and his power to transform us.”
― Vikki Kestell, Stealthy Steps