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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."
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"Heaven means to be one with God."
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"I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not."
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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
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"God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness."
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"Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil."
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"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."
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"I am, therefore there is a God."
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"Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods."
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"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
God

"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society

"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
Life

"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
Society

"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
Philosophy

"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
Desire

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
Fact

"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."
Now

"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
Art

"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
Art
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