| "Doesn't bear thinking about, does it?" "All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that." "Terrible." "Nothing but dust and fundamentalists." | |
| -Crowley & Aziraphale | |
| We boast of our emancipation from many superstionts; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. | |
| -Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Whenever I hear a priest howl for divine retribution, I suspect acid indigestion. | |
| -Master Li | |
| God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the eother players (i.e., everybody) to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. | |
| -Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | |
| "It izz written!" bellowed Beelzebub. "But it might be written differently somewhere else," said Crowley. "Where you can't read it." "In bigger letters," said Aziraphale. "Underlined," Crowley added. "Twice," suggest Aziraphale. "Perhaps this isn't just a test of the world," said Crowley. "It might be a test of you people, too. Hmm?" "God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?" | |
| -Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman< | |
| CHRISTIANS AND ATHEISTS UNITE AGAINST CREEPING AGNOSTICISM | |
| -Letterhead of Markoff Chaney (Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy) | |
| God, give me the strength to change that which can be changed, the strength to change that which probably can't be changed, and the strength to change that which can't possibly be changed. Hey, if You don't work miracles, what the hell good are You? | |
| -Walter Slovotsky | |
| You are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision. | |
| -R. A. MacAvoy | |
| That, actually, is the only legitimate meaning of the much abused word "faith." It is the ... the cussedness ... to insist that what we know to be true remains true, in the face of confusion and distraction. When it is hidden from us. Because ... Because we were not made to live constantly in a glow of divine illumination. | |
| -Powl | |