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The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith in Damascus
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The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith in Damascus (2010) (edit title/settings)

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A gorgeous, romantic memoir of a young woman's year in Damascus, where she studied the Muslim Jesus, fled to an ancient desert monastery to heal her past, and unexpectedly found herself in love with a French novice monk. In 2004, twenty-seven-year-old Stephanie Saldaña traveled to Damascus,... read more

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  • “How does it feel, to know that every time your heart is moving one centimeter, it is moving a thousand centimeters in mine?”
    Frederic
  • “Suffering is the moment when love appears.”
    Stephanie
  • “Whoever saves a single person, it will be as though he saved the entire world.”
    Stephanie
  • “Spiritual exercises are authentic when our visions start telling us things we would rather not hear.”
    Stephanie
  • “Lonely, like any person walking through so much confusion without a companion. pg 125”
    Stephanie
  • “Are there limits to the question? Must the answer be grounded in reality?”
    Stephanie
  • “I have become a walking, talking, ticking disaster. I don't even have to be awake to cause the world harm.”
    Stephanie
  • “Study is one of the highest forms of prayer. pg270”
  • “...understand that-language- sound communicates its own meaning. pg271”
  • “"Sometimes," I said, "the greatest jihad is just to wait." pg291”
    Stephanie
  • “...I guess I am asking you to see my mystery, because I don't feel that anyone has ever seen it before, no one had the eyes to understand all of me.”
  • “Between two successive tragedies, there is always just enough space for "appearance of a star and a lilac and a forest of mirrors and, words."”
  • “We all live in two worlds: the world we physically inhabit, and the world we carry within us.”
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  • Love is given a name in the moment of sacrifice, at the moment in which we face the terrifying possibility of loss. Suffering is the moment when love appears.
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  • Poetry is an invisible energy that exists between everything, holding it together, giving it meaning. The job of every human being is to search for the poetry hidden within the midst of things.”
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  • “When you love someone else, you appreciate his way of sitting, eating, drinking, you hope his hopes, you excuse his difficulties, you recognize his gifts,”
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  • “You know, the Muslims have a saying,” he finishes. “They say that no one can escape from the power of God, and the power of God is his mercy.”
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  • The Crucifixion is the way toward resurrection, simply part of the journey. The Resurrection appears here, in this moment when things seem dead, when we have reached our human limits, when it feels as though there is no love. Resurrection is not an event in the past but a concrete reality, something we look for every day. It is to be completely poor and to receive God in that space as life.”
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  • Paolo once told me that the world is anchored by our souls, that if one person finds God, finds prayer, then they become a link in a chain that helps to heal all those who came before and will come after them. I have heard this before in Syria, from Muslims and Christians both, a local legend. A person who finds God can intercede seven generations in the past and seven generations into the future.
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  • Now I understand that hell is not being banished from God. Hell is the inability to save those you love. Hell is that helplessness in front of God and history, the face of a woman you love in the dark, calling out for help.
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  • For the early monks believed that there is no such thing as a story—we each meet the text, and who we are and the text together create a unique event. We change for it and it changes for us, the act of reading becoming an essential way of transforming ourselves. We can only bring to the text what is inside of ourselves—even if the story is a story of death, if we contain life, we will find life.
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  • We walk on the bones of the suffering of others. How is that different from taking a place in heaven while allowing others to burn in hell?
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  • Too often in my prayers, I’m just looking for a sign-off on decisions I’ve already made. Which is, of course, not a prayer life at all, or a relationship. It is a projection.
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I've finally found a house in Damascus.

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Original Language: English
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY
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Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0385522002
Page Count: 320

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