"It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them."

-- Rachel Held Evans

#People Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Agonizing Quotes

“The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.”
“The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music--it's the new baby--and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.”
“The more you know, the less you need.”
“Based on every statement Iâ€™ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.”
“I hated all my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and can remember, I was dressed as a girl by mother. And I stayed that way for two or three years. And after that I was treated like what I call the dog of the family. I was beaten. I was made to do things that no human bein would want to do.”
“True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.”
“Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.”
“I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasnâ€™t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.”

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