I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
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I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'
I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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