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1 " The uncomfortable truth is, while the church loves sinners in their pews, they don't want them in front of a crowd. It's the difference between acceptance and tolerance. "
― Erin Hahn , Never Saw You Coming
2 " We’re quite the misfit pair, you and I. You, the former pastor’s kid who knew too much, and me, the youth group girl who knew nothing at all. "
3 " I shut out the world only to take in the universe. My skin tingles in anticipation, like little live wires dancing across my surface. A chemistry found only in the divine. How do I know God is real? Because of this. "
4 " When there’s no one else, and I’m at the end of my tether, that’s where I feel God. In the waves pummeling me and the sun baking me and ground surging up around me. That’s my fucking church. "
5 " Meeting Micah has glued my pieces back together. I’m not that same girl I was, and I’m not sure the woman I am now is the kind who apologizes for something she didn’t do. "
6 " And with a smirk worthy of any romantic hero, he jumps backward off the cliff, holding my gaze until he disappears from view.I’m not exaggerating when I say I’m pretty sure he took my heart with him.“Now or never, Meg!”I swallow hard, fill my lungs and leap off into the sky.I’ve got a heart to retrieve. "
7 " Hey, Micah?”“Yeah?”“Do you think we’ll ever have a regular old mundane boring conversation?”“Regular, sure. Mundane? I hope. Boring? Not possible with you. "
8 " Because the uncomfortable truth is, while the church loves sinners in their pews, they don’t want them in front of a crowd. It’s the difference between acceptance and tolerance and it might catch on. "
9 " The only time churches are worried about modesty and purity is when it comes to their teenage girls. I think maybe you all need to take a hard look at why that is? "
