“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.” — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a scriptural text, liber mundi, requiring as much study and devotion as the Bible. This impulse is literary as… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.” — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity.… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a scriptural text,… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
