Lay Your Body Down Quotes

“The church is so good at monitoring the lives and actions of women: Are we involved in enough Bible studies, contributing enough meals to the potlucks, volunteering at enough church activities, bearing and raising enough good Christian children? Nobody ever checks on the men.”
― Amy Suiter Clarke, Lay Your Body Down

“An apology that puts the burden on me and my reaction to the way you wronged me isn't a real apology, just because it has the word 'sorry' in it.”
― Amy Suiter Clarke, Lay Your Body Down

“The way church girls fight has nothing to do with physical violence. We jab with devastating reminders of long-remembered wrongs, innocuous-sounding scriptural admonishments, and poisonous insults coated in the sugary glaze of a polite tone.”
― Amy Suiter Clarke, Lay Your Body Down