“What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“Even if sexual orientation were a choice, aren't we a country where we're supposed to be free to pursue our happiness, whether we're hetero-, homo-, bi-, trans-, or even a-sexual? To use [an analogy that homosexuality is a vice, like drinking], being antigay is like Prohibition, when a small group of busybodies thought no one should be allowed to drink.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“I believe [the Bible] is meant to soften our hearts, not harden them.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“Gay isn't wrong or right. It just is. What's wrong is hating yourself because of it. You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting. But okay, let's just suppose it is a sin. Then isn't that between God and the people involved? Who are you to judge? [...] Time and again, Jesus' message was, 'How can you say, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," when there is a log in your own?”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“My Grandma once told me 'the Church should stay out of people's pants'.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“No, Manuel said firmly. "Gay isn't wrong or right. It just is.”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
“If you think the sea is blue and I think it’s green, why try to convince you?”
― Alex Sanchez, quote from The God Box
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“Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.”
― Nicky Charles, quote from The Mating
“People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren't quite so simple.”
― Ann Leckie, quote from Ancillary Justice
“Reagan has won over my undying love, but I'm willing to date around while she sows her wild oats.”
― K.A. Tucker, quote from One Tiny Lie
“Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“One of the great failings of the American education system, in our view, is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. Study-abroad programs tend to consist of herds of students visiting Oxford or Florence or Paris. We believe that universities should make it a requirement that all graduates spend at least some time in the developing world, either by taking a "gap year" or by studying abroad. If more Americans worked for a summer teaching English at a school like Mukhtar's in Pakistan, or working at a hospital like HEAL Africa in Congo, our entire society would have a richer understanding of the world around us. And the rest of the world might also hold a more positive view of Americans.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, quote from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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