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Lois McMaster Bujold

"The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business."

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"The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business."

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"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

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"When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned."

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"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."

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"The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it."

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"Lord grant me a humble spirit and a willing heart."

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"Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life."

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"With religion we divide people. With unconditional love we bring them under the same umbrella."

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"And this was your friend?' Cordelia raised her eyebrows. 'Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you."
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"Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.' Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless."
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"Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease-that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."
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"It's just a thing. You deal with it.' 'As in, one damn thing after another?''Yes, very like."
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"A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry-even if he is at a convenient height for it."
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"This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same."
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"Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there...."
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"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."
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"Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children-children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too."
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"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins."
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