"If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?"

-- Sharon Shinn

#Makeup Quotes #Grieving Quotes #Grace Quotes

“If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'”
“The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.”
“My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.”
“Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.”
“I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.”
“Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.”
“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”

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