None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan
You become courageous by doing courageous acts. . . Courage is a habit.
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be. ’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.
How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.
From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.