“Jehovah had not simply been testing Abraham, but had communicated in the only language of loyalty, obedience, sacrifice, and command that humankind could understand at that point in the relationship.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow.”
― The Rise of Endymion
― The Rise of Endymion
“sham idealists: the quite large number of people who profess ideals as a form of premium for other-life insurance, and are content to lay up slavery and destitution for their descendants so long as they are enabled to produce personal copybooks of elevated views at the gate of heaven.”
― The Midwich Cuckoos
― The Midwich Cuckoos
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