This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive."… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
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