Sarah Miles Quotations

We work on free throws every day in practice. We really concentrate on them as a team, and it paid off.

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.

There's evidence that suggests that they begin school at a disadvantage in their cognitive and literacy-related skills. Children from economically disadvantaged families have the greatest need for early intervention.

It seems so obvious to say the social world and the academic world are linked.

It validates what a lot of people know ... their own gut feelings. Teachers are researchers on the ground.

Children's social behavior can promote or undermine their learning. And their academic performance may have implications for their social behavior.

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Love does not end when we don't see each other.

It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's.

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.

Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.

Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change.

All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God

An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.