Our sexuality is not our soul, marriage is not heaven, and singleness is not hell.
— Jackie Hill Perry (b. 1989), Autorin, Dichterin, Bibellehrerin
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Relationships & Family, Wisdom & Understanding
Occasions: For Reflection
Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie Hill Perry (* 1989) ist eine US-amerikanische christliche Autorin, Lyrikerin und Bibellehrerin im evangelikalen Raum. Bekanntheit erlangte sie durch Spoken-Word-Darbietungen sowie Schriften über Gottes Heiligkeit und ihren autobiografisch begründeten Wandel von einer lesbischen Lebensweise zum christlichen Glauben, was sowohl gesellschaftliche als auch theologische Debatten auslöste. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sie traditionelle Glaubens- und Ethikfragen in einer bildstarken, zeitgenössischen Sprache.
All quotes by Jackie Hill Perry (18)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson