Wisdom from Sally Read

I was almost breathless at the swooning simplicity and completeness of God’s mercy. The Catholic Church, which I had always seen as wrapped in barbed wire and brambles, was as yielding, accommodating and nonjudgmental as a mother. I use those words in the sense I understand them as a Catholic—I gave myself to God and he accommodated me entirely, my past, my weaknesses, my (doubtless) future sin. In return he wanted the whole of my self.

— Sally Read from Night's Bright Darkness