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1. "My writing is how I maintain." ~ Mark Salzman

2. "She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila" ~ Mark Salzman

3. "It's a mean story, Helen fumed. An absentee father who demands that his children put him at the center of their lives and beg for his return. Sister Priscilla didn't think it was mean, apparently. She was so in love with God that she had married him, even though she would not see his face, hear his voice, or feel his embrace for as long as she lived. One of us, Helen, thought is flying blind." ~ Mark Salzman

4. "What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles" ~ Mark Salzman

5. "Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?" ~ Mark Salzman

6. "In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming." ~ Mark Salzman

7. "Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end." ~ Mark Salzman

8. "The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry." ~ Mark Salzman

9. "suffering borne by two is nearly joy." ~ Mark Salzman

10. "Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155)." ~ Mark Salzman

11. "This book," he began, "is very, very unsuitable." He paused, then went on. "In fact, in my whole life, I have never read or even imagined something so unsuitable." Here he stopped, still staring at me. He held the book up slightly and pointed at it with his chin. "May I keep it?" ~ Mark Salzman

12. "If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself." ~ Mark Salzman

13. "We hang suspended in His love.When one heart moves the whole web trembles." ~ Mark Salzman

14. "She fell upward into brilliance, where all suffering was released." ~ Mark Salzman

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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing."
Author: Bertrand Russell