1. “Only God is right about everything, which is why we are fortunate that God speaks so seldom.” (Rebecca Solnit, Sontag and Tsunami)
2. “God alone is kind.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game)
3. “And a promise to God is the most important promise of all. Never break a promise to God.” (Dan Brown, Angels and Demons)
4. “There is no God,
the cynics say;
we made Him up
out of our need
and fear of death.”
(Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)
5. “I find it hard to believe in a God who care endlessly and each moment about every one of us, who monitors our every deed and need, and guides all things. So many things are obviously unguided, and so many others just cruel.” (Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)
6. “The Bible is an account of man’s dealings with God as related by a man, of man’s progressive understanding of His nature. But no matter what God says in His revelation to Himself, we can understand only what we are capable of, and can only relate to others what we understand.” (Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)
7. “There are limits to what we can ask of the Lord’s mercy.” (Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord)
8. “I cannot believe in an accountant God, who weights my sins and metes our appropriate punishment. (Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)
9. “God sends us despair not to kill us; He sends it to us to awaken new life in us.” (Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game)
10. “God is essentially unknowable; whatever plans, or purposes, or arrangements he has for us would have to be unknowable as well.” (Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)
