Ensuite, la peur se tourne vers votre corps, qui sent déjà que quelque chose de terrible et de mauvais est entrain de survenir. Déjà, votre souffle s'est envolé comme un oiseau et votre cran a fui en...
Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
Cuesta creer que existe el amor, si no pregúnteselo a cualquier amante. Cuesta creer que existe la vida, si no pregúnteselo a cualquier científico. Cuesta creer que existe Dios, si no pregúnteselo a c...
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
And she prays with her eyes closed. It's just a crucifix. And if he's an ape, so be it-he's an ape. He's still the Son of God.
And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.
He found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that can be cast further than the eye can see and be retrieved no matter how heavy the hall, its magical mesh...
Know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.
And so, when she heard if Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her in fact she was not...
És ez még semmi. Mindig akadnak olyanok, akik felvállalják, hogy megvédik Istent, mintha a Végső Valóság, a lét fenntartó kerete gyenge és tehetetlen volna. Ezek az emberek elmennek egy lepra torzítot...
Cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and...
Can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
Memory is a glue: it attaches you to everything, even to what you don’t like.
How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand...
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.
If it weren't for this hyena, the sailors wouldn't have thrown me into the lifeboat and I would have stayed on the ship and I surely would have drowned; and if I had to share quarters with a wild anim...
And I knew what I wanted: I would settle in a hill station and write my novel. I had visions of myself at a table on a large veranda, my notes spread out in front of me next to a steaming cup of tea....