Pete Conrad > Quotes

“My position as a follower of God is not to show you how close I am to God—my job is to show you how close you are to God […]. (Simon)”
― Pete Conrad, The Arbiters

“Walk down any sidewalk in any city and eventually you’ll find a flower growing out of a crack in the concrete, tenaciously grasping for life, barely enough earth for it to clench hold of. This little flower has seeded, sprouted, and blossomed, despite thousands of feet walking over and around it every day. This flower is a survivor, thriving better than if it were in my Aunt Tilda’s fucking backyard garden with her fussing over it day and night and giving it all the goddamned care she thought it needed. Yeah, eventually, some careless asshole’s gonna trample and kill that flower, but another one’s gonna replace it. [...] I’ll always believe in you, Raeburn. You just have to find another crack in the sidewalk and blossom. Don’t be another Kurt Cobain. Don’t give up. People need you.”
― Pete Conrad, The Suicide Flowers

“It is vital to comprehend that humans exist in a state of perpetual transformation. Life ends when stasis sets in.”
― Pete Conrad, The Arbiters

“He thought that if there were a God, His essence was in the virtuous innocence of the children.”
― Pete Conrad, The Arbiters

“I guess my point is that sometimes we ignore the signs that God gives us. We never know what He has in store for us, but we must always be prepared to hear His words. Who knows what fate he would have had in store for me had I kept on that path. (Max)”
― Pete Conrad, The Arbiters

“It is unfair to use that gun against a fellow human and then blame God because you chose to take another man’s life. (Simon)”
― Pete Conrad, The Arbiters