Everything That Rises Must Converge Religion Quotes

Maybe dial it back a notch, Julian: taking your mom to the Y is not actually like waiting to be martyred. Although we get that you feel persecuted.

Notice that he's not raising his eyes to the ceiling: he's raising them to heaven. In other words, he's implicitly asking for divine blessing: "Come on, God, do you see what I have to put up with?"

In Matthew 7:5, there's a fun line about how you should worry about the piece of wood in your own eye before worrying about the speck of dirt in someone else's. In other words—Julian should maybe worry more about his own sins than his mom's.

Carver's mom is threatening her son here, but she does it by invoking Jesus. Would Jesus approve? What's the difference between these kinds of threats and the way Julian's mom forces his obedience?

As our mom, and your mom, and probably everyone's mom since the dawn of time has said: we'll appreciate them when they're dead. Case in point.