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Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.

— Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

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Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious.

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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.

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God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.

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Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

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But the church as an institution has always been able to derive strength from the evidence when it’s useful and ignore it when it’s not.

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