Paloma Ayana Stoecker (Delilah) Quotes

All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it.

Paloma Ayana Stoecker

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• Divorce

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• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

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• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  

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• Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.

  

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• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  

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• Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

  

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• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  

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• Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

  

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• All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Church
  • Divorce