"We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer."

-- Maurice Blanchot

#Atheist Quotes #Distance Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.”
“The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.”
“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”
“If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.”
“Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.”
“Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.”
“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.”
“When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.”

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