Sarah Monette Quotes

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

Who you become is determined by how you pray

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

I want to start saying bad words all the time!

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?

September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.

It's really fun to write cuss words. Just in general.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.