“It's a constant in this country that the people who make the laws love...” — Talia Lavin Quote

“It's a constant in this country that the people who make the laws love to talk about God when they take things from you.”

“It is the nature of reactionary movements to claim that their power is negligible until it is absolute. It is the nature of right-wing American Christianity to nurture a martyrdom that was never theirs, and never will be theirs, and use its sentiments to feed their animus.”

“Solitude is a sacred practice – a meeting with self, an anchor of fortitude in stillness”

“Faith is simply whatever is real to us.”

“Faithful people suffer and evil people prosper all the time [...]. Besides, if our actions are driven only by reward or punishment--eternal or otherwise--then they are motivated by greed and selfishness, not faith or love. That is where so many people go wrong, even those who say they believe [...]. They obey because the think it will make their *lives* better, rather than *themselves*. And that is very much the wrong reason.”

“Often, it is a quiet faith within that awakens the courage to go farther than we ever thought possible.”

“Our failures slowly lose their power over us. As do our successes. We get out from under the tyranny of other people's opinions- their disapproval or approval of us. Free to just be us, the mixed bag we are. Nothing more than children with our Father. Adopted into love.”

“The Bible is to interpret the Bible. It’s up to us to agree with it.”