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“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

“I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.”

God Wanted Moving Religion House Movement Bread Altars Bowel Movements

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”

Needs I Can God Wanted Beautiful Religion Jesus Belief Christ Arms Jesus Christ Bones Frozen Beef Chunks Axes Vertical Horizontal

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.”

Self Wanted Law Religion Women Secret Happened Birth Dignity Essence Add Accidents Accepted Chosen Symbols Distinction Meaningless Brotherhood Judaism Hood Stigma Yoke Initiation Kosher

Author:Jessie Sampter

“You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.”

Philosophy Wanted Poetry Religion Order Rooms Morality Misunderstood

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.”

Ifs Wanted Funny Religion Politics Given Jokes Aviation Favourite Tickets

Author:Mel Brooks