Kenneth

“Don’t you think”—he smiled—“that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?” “No, I don’t. And do you know why?” “No.” Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. “Because it would be the first proof I’ve ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“And he recognized that there was a deep emotional difference between history as recorded on shigawire and read at leisure, a deep difference between that kind of history and the history which one lived. This new living history which he felt gathering around him possessed a sense of plunging into an irreversible future.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“There’s no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It’s unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Satan quotes Scripture as a verbal authority; our Lord meets him with a Scripture by the truth in which he regulates his conduct.”
― George MacDonald, The Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated Edition): Enriched edition. The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith…