Quotes by Sara Miles

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Common Themes

christianity faith kindlehighlight church conversion city-of-god jesus community eucharist hunger service love-your-neighbor following-god doubt war action ideology politics paradox journalism power truth gratitude suffering healing jesus-freak-feeding raising-the-dead charity less-fortunate poverty

“Conversion was turning out to be quite far from the greeting-card moment promised by televangelists, when Jesus steps into your life, personally saves you, and becomes your lucky charm forever. Ins...”
— Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
conversion misconceptions

“Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.”
— Sara Miles, City of God: Faith in the Streets
comfort god

“Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and understand the hunger of other, different men and women, and make a gesture of welcome, and eat w...”
— Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
communion giving hunger