Sara Miles

Quotes

• “To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I'd learned, meant a practice of looking not at the center b...”
• “It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pa...”
• “Christians could agree or argue about God as much as we wanted, but it was all essentially chatter. What bound that driv...”
• “In both roles, as journalist and as organizer, I'd learn that it's possible to fall in love with a revolution—then doubt...”
• “The entire contradictory package of Christianity was present in the Eucharist. A sign of unconditional acceptance and fo...”
• “He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreaso...”
• “Imperialism and exploitation,” he wrote, “spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's good...”
• “Charity had always slightly creeped me out: There was nothing quite as condescending as the phrase "helping the less for...”
• “While the classic conversion story involves desperation, hitting bottom, and a plea for help, I think now that it was gr...”
• “I read the story about the loaves and fishes and thought about Jesus gazing at the hungry crowd, saying to his anxious, ...”
• “I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Ch...”
• “What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: Y...”
• “Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life...”
• “Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fa...”