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Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

— Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

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Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

He’s too superstitious not to see this as a bad omen, but when you're a pessimist, all omens are bad.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

He didn’t want to be what he wasn’t, he didn’t know how to be what he was.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

The rest of Sitka’s homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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