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Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!"
"Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God.

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

I felt a rush of trust
felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce.

An eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

Your strange!" she gushed. (She meant "You're," but Peter felt absolutely certain that she was one of those people who spell it "Your.")

More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less,

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication.

It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's.

And like many a Christian before them, they completely forgot that the only sword-shaped weapon Jesus ever actually used was the one He died on.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia

I felt free to like all three of these men now, because I'd realized I didn't have to become them.

The best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.

Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

And onto the screen pops a couple of housewives who start having a poop fit when they see how clean their new dish soap got the dinner plates

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

I'm back!" he told Life.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.

She might be all right, Freddy said. But she sure is dead.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

Him, trying to do the same.

Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School

This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.