#opal

If we are to be the people who embody in this world and give people the message that God loves them, well, how do you do that apart from helping them? ↗

— The Rt. Rev. Bishop Scott Hiyashi

#episcopal-church #episcopalians #love

There was our love - there was our hope that we'd walk out of this with a future. There was our acceptance of each other - the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. There was so much pent-up longing. So much emotion that it packed a sucker punch straight to my soul and his, and I knew it, because I could feel his heart rate picking up. Mine matched his - made for his. All of that was in a simple kiss and it was too much, not enough, and just perfect. ↗

— Armentrout Jennifer L

#opal #love

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. ↗

— John Bright

#catholic #episcopalian #i #i am #irishman

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. ↗

— Anna Lee

#always #been #comforted #episcopalian #father

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#brought #episcopalian #experience #father #had

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#bishops #church #elected #enormously #episcopal

I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith. ↗

— Nicholas Stacey

#episcopalians #eucharist #mass #vestments #faith

Are red haired girls, red all over? ↗

— Anurag Mathur

#humor #humor

Daemon snatched the yellow packages from my hands. “Oh! Books! You have books!” I laughed as several people waiting in line looked over their shoulders. “Hand them over.” He clutched them to his chest, making moony eyes. “My life is now complete.” “My life would be complete if I could actually post a review on something other than the school library computers.” I did that about twice a week since my latest laptop went to the big computer heaven in the sky. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#opal #life