Marriage and Other Acts of Charity Quotes

“God is love, John’s Gospel tells us. That’s a whole theology in three words. The practical application of that theology—God is love—is nearly as simple. Be as loving as you can, as often as you can, for as many people as you can, for as long as you live. Why should you do this? Because.”
― Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir

“All loves have much in common, and any one will offer a useful, if not painless, education in the limitations and possibilities of being human. If you give your committed love to a person, an idea, or a cause, even should that person, idea, or cause be taken from you, or proven false, you will be a better lover—of anyone, of anything—for the experience. Because I am as religious person, I see this in characteristically grandiose, religious terms: The point of being human is to get better (and better) at caritas, at agape, at love.”
― Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir

“Surprised by joy,” the theologian C. S. Lewis called it, and a cop who is finally snapping the handcuffs around the wrists of a dangerous and elusive perpetrator might know exactly what Lewis meant.”
― Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir