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I sometimes encountered, in churches and elsewhere—in the presence of a venerable Buddhist monk, in the cantor’s singing at a bar mitzvah, and on mountain hikes—something compelling, powerful, even terrifying that I could not ignore, and I had come to see that, besides belief, Christianity involves practice—and paths toward transformation.

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Elaine Pagels, PhD, is an American religious historian, professor, writer, and speaker whose research centers on early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her book The Gnostic Gospels, published in 1979, examines the diversity and the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way women have been viewed throughout Jewish and Christian history.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

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