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Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...

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[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...

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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people w...

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Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is t...

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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Trave...

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When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You...

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Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

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