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The tale you’re about to read has touched countless lives around the globe, like a sick and sticky five-year-old who’s touched all of the cupcakes in a bakery.
“It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young—like the fine ladies at the opera.”
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“You can talk about depression as a "chemical imbalance" all you want, but it presents itself as an external antagonist - a "demon," a "beast," or a "black dog," as Samuel Johnson called it. It could pounce at any time, even in the most innocuous setting.”
― Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
― Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
“Thy will be done –’ No Muslim claiming to be a ‘slave of God’ ever gave a more sweeping consent than that. In that prayer you invite Him to do His worst. The perfect masochist.”
― Job: A Comedy of Justice
― Job: A Comedy of Justice
“Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.”
― Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
― Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
“The truth about resilience is that it's a learned behavior. If you gravitate toward hopelessness, it's not because you're hopeless, but because your brain has done it so many times before. If your mind naturally goes to despair, it's not because your situation is dire, but because you have developed strong neural pathways for despair.”
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