Quotes from Donna Woolfolk Cross

Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?

Pope Joan was an excellent read.

Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.

Some ideas are dangerous.

D?l paiko smalsumo žmon?s kartais net praranda tik?jim?.

She would not trade one set of walls for another.

You proved your skill and exposed their deceit without uttering a single word of accusation. Brilliant!

Joan breathed deeply, filling her lungs with the sweet smells of early spring. Her spirit soared like a falcon loosed from its fetters, delivered suddenly to the miraculous freedom of wind in sky.

primicerius? He was young, it was

The incongruity of the sacred altar and its pagan base seemed to Joan a perfect symbol of herself: a Christian priest, she still dreamed of her mother's heathen Gods; a man in the eyes of the world, she was tormented by her secret woman's heart; a seeker of faith, she was torn between her desire to know God and her fear that He might not exist. Mind and heart, faith and doubt, will and desire. Would the painful contradictions of her nature ever be reconciled?

But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day." "The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.