To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.


Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred (ed. Basic Books, 1999) - ISBN: 9780813367187

Vanessa L. Ochs Quotes

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own...

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own...

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own...

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own...