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Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
- Marianne Williamson
I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don't realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else, but we're just trying to improve every day. It's not about putting anybody down or telling anybody they're wrong. It's more about trying to do what's right for your own self.
- Ayesha Curry
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
- Stephen Malkmus
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
- CS Lewis
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
- Philip Yancey
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
- Barbara Brown Taylor