Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.