“The true value of living honorably lies not in how others perceive you, but in how you see yourself.”
Source: If This Won't Get You Thinking, Nothing Will
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the brain is not fully formed until you're twenty-five years old, and you wonder, then, what becomes of the mind commandeered before it has learned to follow paths of logic. You were soft as clay straight from the earth. You were reformed before you were formed.”
Source: When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
“Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.”
“Narcissists, however, are similar to a spider that has built a web for its prey to bring itself.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“Ogni momento, ogni parola, ogni carezza sarà il nostro qui e ora, e tutti questi qui e ora saranno il nostro per sempre”
Source: Revolution
“Indeed, my fear is that my overbearing, self-willed ways may have given you a distaste of me which not all my future efforts may serve to eradicate.”
Source: The Reluctant Widow
“The effect or impact any occurrence has is only temporary, even though at first it may indeed be overburdening.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some of them were altar boys, and they were abused before or after mass. An altar boy walked right in front of us as we sat there. I began to shake, sweat, and become very uneasy. I felt frozen in my seat.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest
“Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“When someone has endured organized or ritualized abuse, dissociation may be their only defense; sometimes even this is used against them.”
Source: Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder