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Susan E. Isaacs

Susan E Isaacs is an actor, writer and comedienne with many credits in TV, film and radio, including Planes Trains & Automobiles, Seinfeld, Parks And Recreation and more. She is an alumnus of the Groundlings performing company, has written for TV, read her work on public radio, and contributes to the Steve Brown and Burnside Writers blogs.

Publisher’s Weekly and Relevant Magazines named "Angry Conversations" a Top Ten Religion book of 2009.

She has toured with authors Donald Miller and Anne Jackson, led workshops at leading conferences, including Catalyst West Coast, International Arts Movement, and the BIOLA Media Conference. She teaches screenwriting, sketch comedy and acting at Azusa Pacific and Pepperdine Universities.


“Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. Maybe the longing for human love is just the beginning, and the longing for God is always the end.”
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“I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He was very angry--not at me and not at Jack. God was angry at the pain I was going through. I wondered if that was why God hated sin, because of the destruction it caused. For a moment I felt awe for a God who loved me enough to hate the things that hurt me without hating me for causing them.”
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“There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.”
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“It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.”
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“I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. 'The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured your heart may no longer be able to contain it.”
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“Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encourage you creatively when the church could not... I worked with whatever I got my hands on. Can you see that?”
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“He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?”
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“If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.”
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