Mary Doria Russell Quote
Maybe God is only the most powerful poetic idea we humans’re capable of thinkin’, he said one night, after a few drinks. Maybe God has no reality outside our minds and exists only in the paradox of Perfect Compassion and Perfect Justice. Or maybe, he suggested, slouching back in his chair and favoring her with a lopsided, wily grin, maybe God is exactly as advertised in the Torah. Maybe, along with all its other truths and beauties, Judaism preserves for each generation of us the reality of the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses—the God of Jesus. A cranky, uncanny God, D.W. called Him. A God with quirky, unfathomable rules, a God who gets fed up with us and pissed off! But quick to forgive, Sofia, and generous,
Mary Doria Russell
Maybe God is only the most powerful poetic idea we humans’re capable of thinkin’, he said one night, after a few drinks. Maybe God has no reality outside our minds and exists only in the paradox of Perfect Compassion and Perfect Justice. Or maybe, he suggested, slouching back in his chair and favoring her with a lopsided, wily grin, maybe God is exactly as advertised in the Torah. Maybe, along with all its other truths and beauties, Judaism preserves for each generation of us the reality of the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses—the God of Jesus. A cranky, uncanny God, D.W. called Him. A God with quirky, unfathomable rules, a God who gets fed up with us and pissed off! But quick to forgive, Sofia, and generous,
