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"It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me."
God
"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them."
Christ
"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"
God
"I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget."
God
"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."
Pretty
"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God."
God
"The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."
People
"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
Time
"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
God
"That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?"
God
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"You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many."
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"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ."
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"An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?"
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"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."
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"It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews."
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"Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed."
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"The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world."
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"The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth."
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"Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done."
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"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity."
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