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Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is ...more

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Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking...more

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I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

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It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right...more

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I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well b...more

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When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?""No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a...more

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And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it h...more

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I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure ...more

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Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every litt...more

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He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, beca...more

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I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.

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We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were d...more

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Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest....more

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She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

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Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any ...more