Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.
Sarah MilesI was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.
Sarah MilesThere's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.
Sarah MilesFaith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical โproof.โ It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
Sarah MilesIt doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's.
Sarah Miles