Matt Cardin > Quotes

“The godhead is insane, and the supernatural is its insanity.”
― Matt Cardin, To Rouse Leviathan

“ITS ANNIHILATING HOLINESS: In the Hebrew Scriptures, in the desert, under the merciless sun, the Israelites witness repeated outbreaks of Yahweh, Who “is a consuming fire,” an untamable force, a burning pestilence, a plague of serpents. And so is He revealed not just as the Holy Other but as Wholly Other, possessed of a cosmically singular sui generis nature that cannot and will not abide contradiction. In the words of Luther himself, if you sin “then He will devour thee up, for God is a fire that consumeth, devoureth, rageth; verily He is your undoing, as fire consumeth a house and maketh it dust and ashes.” As Otto wrote with such frightening clarity of apprehension, there is something baffling in the way His wrath is kindled and manifested, for it is “like a hidden force of nature, like stored-up electricity, discharging itself upon anyone who comes too near. It is incalculable and arbitrary.” To see His luminance shining from the face of Moses is a horror. To see His face is to die.”
― Matt Cardin, To Rouse Leviathan

“time flowed by like a black river that I watched from a stationary point on some undefined shore. I hovered above everything, clung to nothing, and regarded the world and its inhabitants as figments of a fleeting and pointless dream. The”
― Matt Cardin, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP

“I saw the true nature of the ordered cosmos upon which I had based my hopes: its mutability and insubstantiality, as if it were merely a castle in the sand waiting helplessly and absurdly upon a deserted shore for the ravenous tide to flow in and devour it.”
― Matt Cardin, To Rouse Leviathan

“What if life and sanity depend not on finding the truth but on deliberately cultivating delusion? What if there is indeed a total perspective, but to gain and know it and identify with it is to invite your own deepest disaster?”
― Matt Cardin, To Rouse Leviathan

“Since the deep existed with God from the beginning, is it not possible to conjecture that it is at least as powerful as he?”
― Matt Cardin, To Rouse Leviathan

“You have created protagonists whose very search for salvation produces a backfire effect that damns them to a worse hell than they had ever imagined.”
― Matt Cardin , To Rouse Leviathan

“Our Grandfathers which art in chaos, Fallow be thy names. Thy kingdom scour, Thy will devour the earth, and hell, and heaven.’ Here at the end of everything, this is all the comfort or reassurance I have left to offer anyone. May it prove to be enough for my brother, and for me.”
― Matt Cardin, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP

“All things work together for good and for those who love the LORD" - ah, but what good? and which LORD?”
― Matt Cardin, To Rouse Leviathan