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but one sentence in mind—always the same: “I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space.”
“Believing is easy. It gives us wiggle room to think our way out of a tight spot. But trust doesn’t have any wiggle room. It explodes it. Trust is about being all in.”
― The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
― The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
“Trust like this is an affront to reason, the control our egos crave. Which is precisely the point. Trust does not work because we have captured God in our minds. It works regardless of the fact that, at the end of the day, we finally learn that we can’t.”
― The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
― The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
“We should not tell lies because if everyone else did, no one would trust us and the practice of communication on which lying depends would be undermined. Immorality is a kind of self-contradiction. Reason allows us to think our way through to virtue.”
― Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
― Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
― Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
“Some within the government and some former revolutionaries had finally realized that there was no way the Islamic regime could make us intellectuals vanish. In forcing us underground, it had also made us more appealing, more dangerous and, in a strange way, more powerful. It had made us scarce and, because of this, also in demand.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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