Sex Cult Nun Quotes

“My grandfather, like many leaders, was not content with just sharing his message; he had to control how people lived it. This is the line where even a good philosophy can become a violation.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Never again will I wait for someone else to hand me my power. I’m able to move forward only when I acknowledge that what I do is up to me.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“The only way to logically determine what, if anything, is actually true is to be open to the possibility that none of it is. If it’s true, you don’t have to protect it—questioning it deeply only reveals more and strengthens it.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“All things did work together for my good, but not automatically. I had to choose to create good from it and turn my traumas into strength.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Alone What is loneliness Not touch, not sound Not feeling, sight nor scent But rather an absence An absence of all the above and yet . . . even with all the above you can still be alone. . . . Do you understand me? Of course you don’t. You’re not me and never will be. How could you feel what it’s like in this skin? How could I ever let you in?”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“I realize if I fully own something, I don’t owe it to anyone else unless I make a free agreement to provide it in exchange for something else I value”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“accepting absolute responsibility is power. Only I have the ability to make my decisions, control my thoughts, dictate my emotions, and succeed or fail.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“I feel like I started life as an old lady. I was robbed of my teen hood, and by the time I was seventeen, I thought I knew everything about everything. But in the words of Albert Einstein, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” Now the world has become a massive amusement park filled with unlimited knowledge and experience. With endless opportunities, I keep getting younger.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“My parents tried harder than most to be good parents and good people, but this is the danger when you believe something false: you will act in ways that harm and violate others, even if you intend to do good. This is why we must actively check our most cherished beliefs against logic, against an accurate standard.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“He used sophisticated methods, employed by communist revolutions, like self-criticism and public approval or reprimand, to manipulate his followers’ daily lives for “their own good.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“he was just beginning to formulate his ideas of Christian communism based on Acts 2:44.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“Thank God we are in the Family, safe from such things.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“he told only the top leadership about this exciting new ministry of “Flirty Fishing,” where the female disciples, the “bait,” would flirt with and often have sex with preferably well-to-do men called “Fish,” as a witnessing technique to gain followers and monetary donations.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

“In 2010, it disbanded its communes, releasing into mainstream society thousands of people who’d never held a job or finished school.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life