“They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys.”— Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, Peter Canellos, Doug Murray, imdb.com
“A lot of pastors have to encourage women to stay with abusive husbands because if they taught women how to recognize abuse and leave it, women would be leaving their churches too.”— Mandy Nicole, twitter.com
“Regardless of what your spiritual beliefs are, let’s put them to good use. Let’s extend the idea of interconnectedness to help victims who suffer every day from the realities of verbal, emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Let’s stop letting abusers off the hook and enabling their behavior – it is…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“This country is suffering through a time of spiritual and moral decay. That is the level of the problem and it is the level of the solution.”— Marianne Williamson, twitter.com
“For me, and for a lot of the Christian college students I’ve gotten to know over the years, the constant pressure to love God and to be a certain way for God leads you to judge yourself a spiritual failure. It’s never God’s fault that you don’t feel close. Preachers will say ‘God is always reaching…”— Doug Frank, theotherjournal.com