“The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.”

—  James Alison

Source: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), " Theology amidst the stones and dust http://girardianlectionary.net/res/alison_elijah.htm", p. 40.

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