Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved… - Nancy Mairs
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved…
- Nancy Mairs
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kin… - Nancy Mairs
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kin…
The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and ou… - Nancy Mairs
The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and ou…
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience. - Nancy Mairs
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes th… - Nancy Mairs
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes th…
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become pr… - Nancy Mairs
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become pr…
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives. - Nancy Mairs
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasin… - Nancy Mairs
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasin…
If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even beg… - Nancy Mairs
If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even beg…
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