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What you say affects your sexual identity.

Mary Jenna

That’s the key thing here and when someone says they’re gay or homosexual, that is now saying; “That is my identity.”

My corporate and political friends considered me nuts.

Bill

It would take me thirty minutes to work up the courage to say a word. I was just so inwardly petrified. I would have the bible at the corner of the East Village grill and I just couldn’t open my mouth. It was crazy.

Dreamed of suicide starting at 14.

Matt A.

And God clearly said; “You are going to die this year.” I remember it scared me.

From Judaism to Buddhism to Rosicrucianism.

Lisa

That voice that I have heard my whole life, that calling, that feeling of someone being next to me my whole life had a name.

Consulted a fortune-telling prophetic book.

Lisa

When I was about thirteen or fourteen I wanted some answers for my life. So, I started tossing the I Ching.

Followed my brilliant brother into atheism.

Javed

So I listen to them and they say, “If you have any problems, give us a call.” So I said, “Heck, let’s laugh at these Christians. “So I called them thinking I was going to make fun of them.

Thankful to not be rubbing snakes anymore.

Javed

I would still be rubbing some mouse or some snake or some elephants belly. But I don’t have to do that. I believe in the living God.

NFL role model living a double life.

Herman

I was out in the bars getting drunk on Friday and Saturday. I was hoping the people in church didn’t see me in the bars. I was hoping the people in the bars didn’t see me in church

Old fashioned preachers and mind control.

Joe B.

"I was on a road before I got saved that would have led me probably to my death."

The gift of a son changed my wild lifestyle.

Scooter

"I walked outside that hospital and I laid back in the rain and I just said; “I’m done. God, I surrender."