Quotes by Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

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In big ways and small, I knew exactly how selfish a war could make me, and I saw all around me how fear and need drove o — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
I'd gone to Central America because I didn't think politics was simply a matter of opinion. It wasn't about having the r — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
The entire contradictory package of Christianity was present in the Eucharist. A sign of unconditional acceptance and fo — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: Y — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
I read the story about the loaves and fishes and thought about Jesus gazing at the hungry crowd, saying to his anxious, — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I'd learned, meant a practice of looking not at the center b — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
While the classic conversion story involves desperation, hitting bottom, and a plea for help, I think now that it was gr — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Charity had always slightly creeped me out: There was nothing quite as condescending as the phrase "helping the less for — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
In both roles, as journalist and as organizer, I'd learn that it's possible to fall in love with a revolution—then doubt — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Christians could agree or argue about God as much as we wanted, but it was all essentially chatter. What bound that driv — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
He recounted how, at a Jesuit retreat put on by the UCA, the fathers had been talking politics and discussing the issues — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pa — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Ch — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Imperialism and exploitation,” he wrote, “spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's good — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Conversion was turning out to be quite far from the greeting-card moment promised by televangelists, when Jesus steps in — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and understand the hunge — Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion